fatta
Afar edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fattá f
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Danish fatte, from Middle Low German vaten, from Old Saxon *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to seize, hold”).[1]
Verb edit
fatta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fattaði, supine fattað)
- (transitive, governs the accusative) to get, catch on, take in
References edit
- ^ “On Icelandic”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2011 September 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 March 2014
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
fatta f sg
Participle edit
fatta f sg
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
fatta f (plural fatte)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fatta
- simple past and past participle of fatte
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle Low German vāten, from Old Saxon *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną. Cognate with Danish fatte, Norwegian Bokmål fatte, Dutch vatten and German fassen.
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
fatta
Verb edit
fatta (present fattar, preterite fattade, supine fattat, imperative fatta)
- to grasp, take (hold in one's hand); the concrete meaning of grasp
- Han fattade spaden och började gräva
- He grabbed the shovel and started digging
- to take (a decision, a fancy), acquire (a taste for something); various abstract meanings of grasp
- att fatta ett beslut
- to make a decision
- Han fattade tycke för deras kebabsås
- He took a liking to their kebab sauce
- to understand, comprehend; another abstract meaning of grasp
- Jag fattar inte vad du säger
- I don't understand what you're saying
- (passive voice) to be missing
- Det fattas två skruvar
- Two screws are missing
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fatta (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | fatta | fattas | ||
Supine | fattat | fattats | ||
Imperative | fatta | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | fatten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | fattar | fattade | fattas | fattades |
Ind. plural1 | fatta | fattade | fattas | fattades |
Subjunctive2 | fatte | fattade | fattes | fattades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | fattande | |||
Past participle | fattad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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Further reading edit
- fatta in Svensk ordbok.