yxa
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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]yxa
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse øx (“axe”), from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷs-ih₂- (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yxa c
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | yxa | yxas |
definite | yxan | yxans | |
plural | indefinite | yxor | yxors |
definite | yxorna | yxornas |
Derived terms
[edit]- yxmördare (“axe murderer”)
Verb
[edit]yxa (present yxar, preterite yxade, supine yxat, imperative yxa)
- (yxa till, yxa ihop, yxa fram) to axe, to cut, chip or sculpture with an axe, to hack, to shape roughly, to make a prototype
- Heimskringla, part 3
- Thorberg gick fram och yxade till kanten, så att alla märkena efter yxhuggen försvunno.
- Then Thorberg went and chipped the planks until the deep notches were all smoothed and made even with the rest.
- och så yxade jag till en stuga här vid vägen.
- And so I built a log cabin here by the road.
- kommittén hade yxat till ett förslag
- the committee had hacked a rough proposal
- jag yxade till min personliga profil lite grann
- I shaped up my personal profile a bit
- Heimskringla, part 3
- (yxa ner, yxa upp, yxa sönder, yxa bort) to slash with an axe, to reduce or remove, to attack, to criticise
- Hon har yxat ner antalet biståndsländer från 70 till 33
- She has slashed the number of countries receiving our foreign aid from 70 to 33
- yxa upp en vak
- cut a hole in the ice with an axe
Conjugation
[edit]active | passive | |||
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infinitive | yxa | yxas | ||
supine | yxat | yxats | ||
imperative | yxa | — | ||
imper. plural1 | yxen | — | ||
present | past | present | past | |
indicative | yxar | yxade | yxas | yxades |
ind. plural1 | yxa | yxade | yxas | yxades |
subjunctive2 | yxe | yxade | yxes | yxades |
present participle | yxande | |||
past participle | yxad |
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
See also
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