braka
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aːka
Verb edit
braka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative brakaði, supine brakað)
Conjugation edit
braka — active voice (germynd)
| infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að braka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supine (sagnbót) |
brakað | ||||
| present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
brakandi | ||||
| indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
| present (nútíð) |
ég braka | við brökum | present (nútíð) |
ég braki | við brökum |
| þú brakar | þið brakið | þú brakir | þið brakið | ||
| hann, hún, það brakar | þeir, þær, þau braka | hann, hún, það braki | þeir, þær, þau braki | ||
| past (þátíð) |
ég brakaði | við brökuðum | past (þátíð) |
ég brakaði | við brökuðum |
| þú brakaðir | þið brökuðuð | þú brakaðir | þið brökuðuð | ||
| hann, hún, það brakaði | þeir, þær, þau brökuðu | hann, hún, það brakaði | þeir, þær, þau brökuðu | ||
| imperative (boðháttur) |
braka (þú) | brakið (þið) | |||
| Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
| brakaðu | brakiði * | ||||
| * Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. | |||||
Noun edit
braka
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *braką.
Verb edit
braka
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: braka
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
braka (present brakar, preterite brakade, supine brakat, imperative braka)
- (fairly rare by itself) to make a loud crashing sound like the sound of a large tree falling or a structure collapsing
- (with a particle specifying a direction) to collapse or collide with something, making such a sound
- Huset brakade ihop / brakade samman
- The house came crashing down ("crashed together," literally)
- Lastbilen brakade in i sidan av huset
- The truck crashed into the side of the house
- (figuratively, often with loss (“loose”) for a beginning) to break out, to crash (start or end with great intensity)
- Vintern har brakat loss
- Winter has broken out
- Kriget brakade loss i februari
- The war broke out in February
- Förhandlingarna har brakat ihop
- The negotiations have crashed
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of braka (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | braka | — | ||
| Supine | brakat | — | ||
| Imperative | braka | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | braken | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | brakar | brakade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | braka | brakade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | brake | brakade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | brakande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||