frikast
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]Compound of fri (“free”) + kast (“throw”).
Noun
[edit]frikast n
- a free throw (in handball, water polo)
- 2012 November 2, Rickard Jansson, “IFK-förlust med uddamålet”, in Sveriges Radio[1], archived from the original on 2025-02-14:
- Hemmalaget och hemmapubliken ville ha straffkast, domaren dömde dock frikast.
- The home team and the home crowd wanted a penalty throw, but the referee deemed it a free throw.
- 2025 January 2, Svenska Handbollsförbundet, “Handbollens Spelregler 2025”, in Svensk Handboll[2] (pdf), archived from the original on 2025-02-14, page 38:
- Frikastet ska normalt utföras utan signal från domaren (se dock 15:5b) och, i princip, från den plats där förseelsen begicks.
- The free throw shall normally be executed without a signal from the referee (see, however, 15:5b) and, in principle, from the place where the infraction occurred.
- (Anglicism) a free throw (in basketball)
- Synonym: straffkast
- 2012 January 2, Redaktionen, “Expressen rättar vecka 52”, in Expressen[3], archived from the original on 2025-02-14:
- Bokstavligt översatt blir den engelska termen (free throw) frikast på svenska. Men rätt basketterminologi är förstås straffkast.
- Translated literally, the English term (free throw) becomes frikast in Swedish. But the correct basketball terminology is of course straffkast.
- 2020, “Straffkast i basket”, in Mediespråk[4], archived from the original on 2022-09-26:
- Observera att basket har straffkast, inte "frikast".
- Note that basketball has straffkast, not "frikast".
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | frikast | frikasts |
| definite | frikastet | frikastets | |
| plural | indefinite | frikast | frikasts |
| definite | frikasten | frikastens |