virke
Danish edit
Verb edit
virke (imperative virk, infinitive at virke, present tense virker, past tense virkede, perfect tense har virket)
- function properly
- Lommelygten virker ikke!
- The torch does not work!
- Lommelygten virker ikke!
- to work, to labor
- Synonym: arbejde
- exert influence upon
- 1991, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Latin og nationalsprog i Norden efter reformationen: Konference 1.-5. august 1987, Biskops-Arnö, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 179:
- Han vil altså ikke tale om: sprog, der virker på mennesker ved konvention, f.eks. universalsprog; eller overhovedet om sprog som tegn, der meddeler et indhold.
- Thus, he does not want to talk about: languages, doing work on humans by convention, e.g. universal languagez; or about languages as signs conveying content at all.
- seem, appear
- Du virker lidt sur.
- You seem a little angry.
- Du virker lidt sur.
Conjugation edit
Inflection of virke
Noun edit
virke
- (uncountable) work, labor
Declension edit
Declension of virke
neuter gender |
Singular | |
---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | virke | virket |
genitive | virkes | virkets |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
virkkaa (“to say, utter”) (dialectal) + -e. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1880.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
virke
Usage notes edit
- virke means only the whole sentence or set of clauses ending with a period, exclamation point or question mark. Thus, "Minä menen kouluun, vaikka en jaksaisi." is a virke, while "Minä menen kouluun" is a lause (or more exactly a päälause) and vaikka en jaksaisi is a lause (or more exactly a sivulause).
Declension edit
Inflection of virke (Kotus type 48*A/hame, kk-k gradation) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | virke | virkkeet | ||
genitive | virkkeen | virkkeiden virkkeitten | ||
partitive | virkettä | virkkeitä | ||
illative | virkkeeseen | virkkeisiin virkkeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | virke | virkkeet | ||
accusative | nom. | virke | virkkeet | |
gen. | virkkeen | |||
genitive | virkkeen | virkkeiden virkkeitten | ||
partitive | virkettä | virkkeitä | ||
inessive | virkkeessä | virkkeissä | ||
elative | virkkeestä | virkkeistä | ||
illative | virkkeeseen | virkkeisiin virkkeihin | ||
adessive | virkkeellä | virkkeillä | ||
ablative | virkkeeltä | virkkeiltä | ||
allative | virkkeelle | virkkeille | ||
essive | virkkeenä | virkkeinä | ||
translative | virkkeeksi | virkkeiksi | ||
abessive | virkkeettä | virkkeittä | ||
instructive | — | virkkein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
compounds
Further reading edit
- “virke”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse virki (noun), and German wirken (verb).
Noun edit
virke n (definite singular virket, uncountable)
- (uncountable) business; work
- of or related to woodwork
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
virke (imperative virk, present tense virker, passive virkes, simple past and past participle virka or virket, present participle virkende)
Derived terms edit
Terms derived from virke (verb)
References edit
- “virke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse virki, influenced by Norwegian Bokmål virke. Doublet of vyrke n.
Noun edit
virke n (definite singular virket, uncountable)
Synonyms edit
- (wood): vyrke
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- “virke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
virke n
Declension edit
Declension of virke | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | virke | virket | — | — |
Genitive | virkes | virkets | — | — |