fatta
Icelandic
Verb
fatta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fattaði, supine fattað)
References
- “On Icelandic”, in (please provide the title of the work), accessed 6 September 2011, archived from the original on 2014-03-08
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfat.ta/
- Rhymes: -atta
- Hyphenation: fàt‧ta
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfatːa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -atːa
- Hyphenation: fat‧ta
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German vāten, from Old Saxon *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną. Cognate with Danish fatte, Norwegian Bokmål fatte, Dutch vatten and German fassen.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
fatta (present fattar, preterite fattade, supine fattat, imperative fatta)
- to grasp, take (hold in one's hand); the concrete meaning of grasp
- Han fattade spaden och började gräva
- He grabbed the shovel and started digging
- to take (a decision, a fancy), acquire (a taste for something); various abstract meanings of grasp
- att fatta ett beslut
- to make a decision
- Han fattade tycke för deras kebabsås
- He took a liking to their kebab sauce
- to understand, comprehend; another abstract meaning of grasp
- Jag fattar inte vad du säger
- I don't understand what you're saying
- (passive) to be missing
- Det fattas två skruvar
- Two screws are missing
Conjugation
Conjugation of fatta (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | fatta | fattas | ||
Supine | fattat | fattats | ||
Imperative | fatta | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | fatten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | fattar | fattade | fattas | fattades |
Ind. plural1 | fatta | fattade | fattas | fattades |
Subjunctive2 | fatte | fattade | fattes | fattades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | fattande | |||
Past participle | fattad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Further reading
- fatta in Svensk ordbok.
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