gruva
See also: gluva
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
gruva m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
gruva f
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From German Grube (“pit, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrebh- (“to dig, scrape, bury”).
Noun edit
gruva c
- mine (place from which ore is extracted)
Declension edit
| Declension of gruva | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | gruva | gruvan | gruvor | gruvorna |
| Genitive | gruvas | gruvans | gruvors | gruvornas |
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Verb edit
gruva (present gruvar, preterite gruvade, supine gruvat, imperative gruva)
- (reflexive) (gruva sig) to be nervous or anxious (about something one has to do or the like)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of gruva (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | gruva | — | ||
| Supine | gruvat | — | ||
| Imperative | gruva | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | gruven | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | gruvar | gruvade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | gruva | gruvade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | gruve | gruvade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | gruvande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||