brassa
French
[edit]Verb
[edit]brassa
- third-person singular past historic of brasser
Anagrams
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to brasa (“small fire”).
Verb
[edit]brassa (present brassar, preterite brassade, supine brassat, imperative brassa)
- (with på) to put in a great deal of force (often of a projectile being fired or (accelerating and) driving fast); to fire away, to go flat out, to pull out all the stops
- De brassade på med automateld mot fienden
- They laid down automatic fire on the enemy
- Han tog sats och brassade på mot målet
- He backed up and fired a hard shot towards the goal
- De brassade på för fullt för att hinna
- They drove as fast as they could ("fired on all cylinders") to make it in time (context-dependent)
Usage notes
[edit]Stress on på.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of brassa (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | brassa | brassas | ||
| Supine | brassat | brassats | ||
| Imperative | brassa | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | brassen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | brassar | brassade | brassas | brassades |
| Ind. plural1 | brassa | brassade | brassas | brassades |
| Subjunctive2 | brasse | brassade | brasses | brassades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | brassande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Descendants
[edit]- → Finnish: brassailla
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- brassa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- brassa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- brassa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)