trappa
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Swedish trappa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trappa f (genitive singular trappu, plural trappur)
Declension edit
Declension of trappa | ||||
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f1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | trappa | trappan | trappur | trappurnar |
accusative | trappu | trappuna | trappur | trappurnar |
dative | trappu | trappuni | trappum | trappunum |
genitive | trappu | trappunnar | trappa | trappanna |
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
trappa
- third-person singular past historic of trapper
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Presumably related to Old English træppe (“trap, snare”) (whence English trap), possibly borrowed from Frankish *trappā (“staircase”).
Noun edit
trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Medieval Latin)[1]
Inflection edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | trappa | trappae |
Genitive | trappae | trappārum |
Dative | trappae | trappīs |
Accusative | trappam | trappās |
Ablative | trappā | trappīs |
Vocative | trappa | trappae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “trappa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1040
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
trappa m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
trappa f
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish trapa, trappa, borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Faroese trappa.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
trappa c
- staircase, stairway, stairs, flight of stairs
- Hon gick upp/ner för trappan
- She walked up/down the stairs
- Trappan har tjugo trappsteg
- The staircase has twenty steps
Declension edit
Declension of trappa | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | trappa | trappan | trappor | trapporna |
Genitive | trappas | trappans | trappors | trappornas |
Descendants edit
See also edit
Verb edit
trappa (present trappar, preterite trappade, supine trappat, imperative trappa)
- See trappa av, trappa upp and trappa ner.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of trappa (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | trappa | trappas | ||
Supine | trappat | trappats | ||
Imperative | trappa | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | trappen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | trappar | trappade | trappas | trappades |
Ind. plural1 | trappa | trappade | trappas | trappades |
Subjunctive2 | trappe | trappade | trappes | trappades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | trappande | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived terms edit
- rulltrappa (“escalator”)
- trappa av
- trappa ner
- trappa upp
- trappavsats (“landing”)
- trapphus
- trappsteg
- trappstege (“stepladder”)
- trappuppgång
References edit
- trappa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- trappa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- trappa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- trappa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)