bruka
See also: brúka
Albanian edit
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bruka
Lithuanian edit
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brùka
Lower Sorbian edit
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bruka
- genitive singular of bruk
- accusative singular of bruk
- nominative dual of bruk
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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bruka n
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
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bruka n
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Low German bruken.
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bruka (present tense brukar/bruker, past tense bruka/brukte, past participle bruka/brukt, passive infinitive brukast, present participle brukande, imperative bruka/bruk)
- to use
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References edit
- “bruka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *brūkan.
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brūka
- to use
Inflection edit
Conjugation of brūka (strong class 2)
infinitive | brūka | |
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indicative | present | past |
1st person singular | brūke | brāk |
2nd person singular | brūkest, brūkst | brākest, brākst |
3rd person singular | brūketh, brūkth | brāk |
plural | brūkath | breken |
subjunctive | present | past |
singular | brūke | breke |
plural | brūke, brūken | breke, breken |
imperative | present | |
singular | brūk | |
plural | brūketh | |
participle | present | past |
brūkande | ebreken, breken |
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bruka
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
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brȕka f (Cyrillic spelling бру̏ка)
Declension edit
Declension of bruka
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German bruken, from Old Saxon brukan.
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Audio (file)
Verb edit
bruka (present brukar, preterite brukade, supine brukat, imperative bruka)
- (auxiliary) to use to (present tense of used to); to be in the habit of
- Han brukar äta majs
- He often / regularly eats corn
- Han brukade segla runt sjön på somrarna.
- He used to sail around the lake in the summer.
- to cultivate, till, farm
- (dated) to make use of
Usage notes edit
Like English used to, but as natural-sounding in the present tense as in the past tense.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bruka (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | bruka | brukas | ||
Supine | brukat | brukats | ||
Imperative | bruka | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | bruken | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | brukar | brukade | brukas | brukades |
Ind. plural1 | bruka | brukade | brukas | brukades |
Subjunctive2 | bruke | brukade | brukes | brukades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | brukande | |||
Past participle | brukad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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Descendants edit
- → Finnish: ruukata
Further reading edit
- bruka in Svensk ordbok.