vaske

See also: Vaske

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vaska (“to wash”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (“wet; water”). Cognate with Swedish vaska, German waschen, Old English wæscan (English wash).

Noun

vaske c

1. plural indefinite of vask

Verb

vaske (imperative vask, infinitive at vaske, present tense vasker, past tense vaskede, perfect tense er/har vasket)

1. to wash
2. to shampoo (to wash hair with shampoo)
3. to launder (to wash; to disguise the source of ill-gotten wealth)
4. to shuffle (to mix up cards in a random order before a card game)

Conjugation

Inflection of vaske

	present	past
simple	vasker	vaskede
perfect	har vasket	havde vasket
passive	vaskes	vaskedes
participle	vaskende	vasket
imperative	vask	—
infinitive	vaske	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	vasken	—

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Inherited from Danish vaske, from Old Norse vaska (“to wash”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (“wet; water”). Cognate with Swedish vaska, German waschen, Old English wæscan (English wash). The simple past tense is from oral Norwegian (compare to the declension of Norwegian Nynorsk vaska)

Verb

vaske (imperative vask, present tense vasker, passive vaskes, simple past and past participle vaska or vasket)

1. to wash (clean with water)

Derived terms

• hjernevaske
• hvitvaske
• utvasking
• uvasket
• vaskbar
• vaskebrett
• vaskemaskin
• vaskemiddel
• vaskepulver
• vaskeri

 

References

• “vaske” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vaske (present tense vaskar, past tense vaska, past participle vaska, passive infinitive vaskast, present participle vaskande, imperative vaske/vask)

1. e-infinitive form of vaska (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)