hjorta

Swedish

Etymology

From hjort +‎ -a.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jʊrta/

Verb

hjorta (present hjortar, preterite hjortade, supine hjortat, imperative hjorta)

  1. to move in a way that reminds the movement of a deer
    Vi hjortade iväg till affären.
    We ran like deer to the store.

Usage notes

Mostly used with iväg (“away, off to”).

Conjugation
Conjugation of hjorta (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive hjorta hjortas
Supine hjortat hjortats
Imperative hjorta —
Imper. plural1 hjorten —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative hjortar hjortade hjortas hjortades
Ind. plural1 hjorta hjortade hjortas hjortades
Subjunctive2 hjorte hjortade hjortes hjortades
Participles
Present participle hjortande
Past participle hjortad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References
  • “The open lexical infrastructure of Språkbanken”, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation‎, Istanbul: ELRA, 2012

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