kosta

See also: kostā

Faroese

Verb

kosta (third person singular past indicative kostaði, third person plural past indicative kostaðu, supine kostað)

  1. to cost

Conjugation

Derived terms


Finnish

Verb

kosta

  1. Indicative present connegative form of kostaa.
  2. Second-person singular imperative present form of kostaa.
  3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of kostaa.

Anagrams


Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese costas. Cognates with Kabuverdianu kósta.

Noun

kosta

  1. back (the backside of the body)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰɔsta/
    Rhymes: -ɔsta

Verb

kosta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kostaði, supine kostað)

  1. to cost
    Þessi hálsfesti kostaði mikla peninga!
    This necklace cost a lot of money!
  2. to finance, to bear the cost of
    Foreldrar mínir kostuðu námið mitt.
    My parents financed my education.

Conjugation

Noun

kosta

  1. indefinite genitive plural of kostur

Latvian

Participle

kosta

  1. genitive singular masculine form of kosts
  2. nominative singular feminine form of kosts

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

kosta

  1. simple past of koste
  2. past participle of koste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin constare

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²kɔstɑ/

Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kost/kosta)

  1. to cost (require payment of a price, cause something to be lost)

Etymology 2

From the noun kost

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²kʊstɑ/

Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kost/kosta)

  1. to sweep (clean with a broom)

Further reading


Novial

Verb

kosta

  1. cost

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kustōną (to try, taste), from *kustuz, whence also Old Norse kostr.

Verb

kosta

  1. (transitive, with genitive) to try
  2. (with infinitive) to exert oneself, strive
  3. (impersonal, transitive) to injure, hurt
    1. þat fall var svá mikit, at kostaði lærlegg hans
      the fall was so great, that it cost him his thigh-bone
  4. (ditransitive) to cost someone something
  5. to defray the expenses of

Conjugation

Descendants

References

  • kosta in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

kosta (present kostar, preterite kostade, supine kostat, imperative kosta)

  1. to cost

Conjugation

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