slita
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slita
- inflection of slít:
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slita (present tense slit, past tense sleit, supine slite, past participle sliten, present participle slitande, imperative slit)
- to tear, pull hard
- 1895, Arne Garborg, Haugtussa:
- I meg du enno riv og slit i dine Baand.
- Within me, you still pull and tear at your restraints.
- slita tak i ― to grab, to snatch
- 2015, Synnøve Hole, “16-åring dømd for forsøk på knivran”, in NRK[1]:
- Medan guten prøvde å slite tak i veska, heldt ein annan opp ein kniv […]
- While the boy tried to grab the bag, another held up a knife […]
- to wear out
- 1862, Aasta Hansteen, (translated from Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson), "Visa hans Upplands-Knut"
- Ho gøymde huva i tjuge aar, maatte 'ke slita henne ut […]
- She saved the hat for twenty years, did not want to wear it out […]
- 1862, Aasta Hansteen, (translated from Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson), "Visa hans Upplands-Knut"
- to work hard, toil
- 1861, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860:
- I mi Fødebygd, saag eg vel, at Kvendi maatte slita tungt, og til armare og meir uvitande Folk var, til meir sleit Kona.
- Where I was born, I saw clearly that the women had to toil hard, and the poorer and more ignorant people were, the more the wife toiled.
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- “slita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną.
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slīta
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Conjugation of slīta (strong)
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- Swedish: slita
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Etymology edit
From Old Swedish slīta, from Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *slaid-, *sled-.
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slita (present sliter, preterite slet, supine slitit, imperative slit)
- to wear (out)
- to forcefully grab and pull; to grab, to tear
- slita tag i någon
- forcefully grab someone
- slita isär något
- tear something apart
- slita loss något
- tear something loose
- Han slet pistolen ur rånarens hand
- He tore the pistol from the robber's hand
- to toil, to labor (perform strenuous work)
- De slet i gruvan
- They toiled in the mine
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of slita (class 1 strong)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | slita | slitas | ||
Supine | slitit | slitits | ||
Imperative | slit | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | sliten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | sliter | slet | slits, slites | slets |
Ind. plural1 | slita | sleto | slitas | sletos |
Subjunctive2 | slite | slete | slites | sletes |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | slitande | |||
Past participle | sliten | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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- slita in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- slita in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- slita in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)