spøkja
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From spøk, from Middle Low German spoken.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
spøkja (present tense spøkjer, past tense spøkte, past participle spøkt, passive infinitive spøkjast, present participle spøkjande, imperative spøk)
- to haunt, appear as a ghost
- I det raude huset der borte spøkjer det.
- The red house over there is haunted.
- having a poor outlook; not look good
- Det spøkjer for heile prosjektet no.
- Things do not look good for the entire project right now.
- joke
- Dei spøkte med at dei hadde sett verre ting.
- They joked about having seen worse things.
References edit
- “spøkja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.