fladdra
Swedish
editEtymology
editRelated to English flounder (“to flap around”), related to several other Germanic words beginning with fl.
Verb
editfladdra (present fladdrar, preterite fladdrade, supine fladdrat, imperative fladdra)
- to flutter (like a flag in the wind or a butterfly), to move here and there, to be unsteady
Conjugation
editConjugation of fladdra (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | fladdra | — | ||
| Supine | fladdrat | — | ||
| Imperative | fladdra | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | fladdren | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | fladdrar | fladdrade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | fladdra | fladdrade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | fladdre | fladdrade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | fladdrande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms
editSee also
editReferences
edit- Walter W[illiam] Skeat (1910) An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1963, →OCLC, page 213.