mejka sense

Swedish

Alternative forms

• mejka sens

Etymology

Borrowed from English make sense. In contrast to other Scandinavian languages like Danish give mening, Norwegian Bokmål gi mening and Norwegian Nynorsk gjeva meining, Swedish lacks a perfect equivalent for "make sense." Compare also Icelandic meika sens, Dutch sense maken.

Verb

mejka sense (present mejkar sense, preterite mejkade sense, supine mejkat sense, imperative mejka sense)

1. (slang, often humorous, nonstandard) to make sense (be coherent or reasonable)

   Jag tyckte det han sa mejkade sense

   I thought what he said made sense

Conjugation

Conjugation of mejka (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	mejka sense		—
Supine	mejkat sense		—
Imperative	mejka sense		—
Imper. plural1	mejken sense		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	mejkar sense	mejkade sense	—	—
Ind. plural1	mejka sense	mejkade sense	—	—
Subjunctive2	mejke sense	mejkade sense	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	—
Past participle	—
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

• gå ihop
• rimla (neologism)
• verka vettigt
• verka rimligt