söla
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sola"
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Cognate of Danish søle, Norwegian Nynorsk søyle, German suhlen, English soil, sully, Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bisauljan). Doublet of solka.
Verb edit
söla (present sölar, preterite sölade, supine sölat, imperative söla)
- to be too (annoyingly) slow (especially during movement), to dawdle, to delay
- Sluta söla! Skynda på!
- Stop being so slow! Hurry up!
- (often with ner (“down”), intransitive) to make a sticky mess (often through spilling)
- (with ner (“down”), transitive) to sully with something sticky and messy (often through spilling)
- söla ner tröjan med glass
- spill ice cream on the shirt
- (glassblowing) to do own private glassblowing in a glass factory in the hours when the daily production activity is not going on
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of söla (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | söla | — | ||
| Supine | sölat | — | ||
| Imperative | söla | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | sölen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | sölar | sölade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | söla | sölade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | söle | sölade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | sölande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- söla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- söla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- söla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- söla in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)