klökas

Swedish edit

Cognate to Danish kløjes and Icelandic klígja, originally from a root *klak- (”to break”). For the semantic development, compare German erbrechen and Danish brække.

klökas (present klöks, preterite klöktes, supine klökts, imperative klöks)

(dialectal, Southern, deponent) to feel as if one almost has to throw up; feel nauseous; to throw up
- 2006, “Brist på struktur i förutsägbar komedi [Lack of structure in predictable comedy]”, in Sydsvenskan‎^[1]:
  Men när höjden av komik är en man som i en utdragen scen klöks och blir nerbajsad vid ett blöjbyte förstår man att filmen har problem.
  But when the pinnacle of comedy is a man who in a drawn-out scene almost throws up and get covered in poop, you understand that the movie has problems.

Conjugation of klökas (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	—		klökas
Supine	—		klökts
Imperative	—		klöks
Imper. plural¹	—		klökens
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	—	—	klöks, klökes	klöktes
Ind. plural¹	—	—	klökas	klöktes
Subjunctive²	—	—	klökes	klöktes
	Participles
Present participle	klökandes
Past participle	—
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.