spörja
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish spyria, from Old Norse spyrja, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål spørre, Norwegian Nynorsk spørje, spørja, Danish spørge, Icelandic spyrja, Faroese spyrja, Dutch speuren, German spüren, Luxembourgish spieren, English speer, speir, spere and Scots speir.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
spörja (present spörjer, preterite sporde, supine sport, imperative spörj)
- (dated, poetic) to ask
- Skall ni verkligen bli läkare? sporde hon en dag
- Are you really becoming a doctor? she asked one day
- han hade sport att påvens munskänk var död
- he had learned that the pope's cupbearer was dead
- 1929, Evert Taube, "Balladen om briggen "Blue Bird" av Hull"
- - Hur var namnet på skutan?
Han sporde och slog
nio supar i spetsiga glas.
- Briggen Blue bird.
Det tionde glaset han tog,
och han slog det mot golvet i kras.- - What was the name of the ship?
He asked and poured
nine drinks in pointy glasses.
"The brig Blue Bird."
The tenth glass he took,
and he threw it into the floor.
- - What was the name of the ship?
- (dated, poetic) to learn, to get news (after having asked around, through rumors, or the like)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of spörja (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | spörja | spörjas | ||
| Supine | sport | sports | ||
| Imperative | spörj | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | spörjen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | spörjer | sporde | spörjs, spörjes | spordes |
| Ind. plural1 | spörja | sporde | spörjas | spordes |
| Subjunctive2 | spörje | sporde | spörjes | spordes |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | spörjande | |||
| Past participle | spord | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- spörja in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- spörja in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- spörja in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)