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forsa

See also: forsą, forša, foršā, and fórsa

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”).

Noun

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forsa f

  1. force

Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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for (“on”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

Pronoun

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forsa·

  1. on whom, on which

Etymology 2

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Univerbation of for (“on”) +‎ a (“the”, neuter accusative singular)

Article

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forsa (triggers eclipsis)

  1. on the n sg

Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”). Compare Old French force.

Noun

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forsa f (oblique plural forsas, nominative singular forsa, nominative plural forsas)

  1. force (physical effort)

Descendants

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  • Occitan: fòrça

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Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese força, from Late Latin fortia.

Noun

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forsa

  1. force, power

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French force.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrsa
  • Syllabification: for‧sa

Noun

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forsa f

  1. (colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian) dough, money
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze
  2. (obsolete) force, physical strength
  3. (obsolete or dialectal, Far Masovian) effort, forceful action
  4. (Far Masovian) crowd (large number of people)
  5. (Kielce) Synonym of przykład
    Dziecko ma do złego forsę z ojca. ― The child has a bad example of his father.

Declension

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Declension of forsa
singular
nominative forsa
genitive forsy
dative forsie
accusative forsę
instrumental forsą
locative forsie
vocative forso

Further reading

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  • forsa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • forsa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “forsa”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107
  • Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “forsa”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 246

Swedish

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Etymology

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fors (“rapid”) +‎ -a. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fossa.

Verb

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forsa (present forsar, preterite forsade, supine forsat, imperative forsa)

  1. to flow violently and profusely (of water or other liquid); to rush, to gush, to pour
    Vattnet forsade nedför berget
    Water rushed down the mountain
    Blodet forsade ur såret
    Blood gushed out of the wound
    Regnet forsade ner
    The rain poured down
  2. (figuratively, often with a particle like fram (“forth”)) to rush, to race (move quickly forward)
  3. (figuratively) to gush, to pour out (of words or the like)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of forsa (weak)
active passive
infinitive forsa —
supine forsat —
imperative forsa —
imper. plural1 forsen —
present past present past
indicative forsar forsade — —
ind. plural1 forsa forsade — —
subjunctive2 forse forsade — —
present participle forsande
past participle —

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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