ramsa
Swedish edit
Noun edit
ramsa c
- a set string of words or syllables (often more or less ritualistic in nature); a rhyme, a formula, an incantation, etc.
- en magisk ramsa
- a magical rhyme (for example)
- en ramsa för att komma ihåg planeternas ordning
- a rhyme to remember the order of the planets
- en näverbit, på vilken han skrivit upp ramsan, som han måste läsa innan han lade pengen i källan
- a piece of birch bark, on which he had written the formula, that he must read before he put the coin in the well
- a nursery rhyme (when not a song)
- Synonym: barnramsa
- a chant (in support of a competitor at a sports event)
- Synonym: hejaramsa
- (figuratively) an utterance reminiscent of the above (through being more or less set, meaningless, rhyme-like, or the like)
- den gamla vanliga ramsan om hur orättvist det är att han inte alltid får göra precis som han vill
- the old refrain about how unfair it is that he doesn't always get to do exactly what he wants
- svära en ramsa
- utter a string of curses
Declension edit
| Declension of ramsa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | ramsa | ramsan | ramsor | ramsorna |
| Genitive | ramsas | ramsans | ramsors | ramsornas |
Derived terms edit
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Verb edit
ramsa (present ramsar, preterite ramsade, supine ramsat, imperative ramsa)
- to read a formula or nursery rhyme, to speak a lot with little meaning
- och han ramsade rägglor om häxor och troll och om irrfärder rakt bort i stoll
- and he read rhymes of witches and trolls and of lost journeys straight into insanity
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of ramsa (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | ramsa | — | ||
| Supine | ramsat | — | ||
| Imperative | ramsa | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | ramsen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | ramsar | ramsade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | ramsa | ramsade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | ramse | ramsade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | ramsande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
References edit
- ramsa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- ramsa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- ramsa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)