fladdra
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Related to English flounder (“to flap around”), related to several Germanic words beginning with fl.
Verb edit
fladdra (present fladdrar, preterite fladdrade, supine fladdrat, imperative fladdra)
- to flutter (like a flag in the wind or a butterfly), to move here and there, to be unsteady
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fladdra (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | fladdra | — | ||
| Supine | fladdrat | — | ||
| Imperative | fladdra | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | fladdren | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | fladdrar | fladdrade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | fladdra | fladdrade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | fladdre | fladdrade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | fladdrande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- Walter W[illiam] Skeat (1910) An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1963, →OCLC, page 213.