gallra
Swedish
[edit]Verb
[edit]gallra (present gallrar, preterite gallrade, supine gallrat, imperative gallra)
- (often with a particle like ut (“out”), bort (“away”), or i (“in”)) to remove undesired parts (of something, concrete or abstract); to cull, to winnow, to thin, to weed
- gallra ett träd
- thin a tree
- gallra en trädgård
- weed a garden
- Han blev utgallrad
- He was "sieved out"
- gallra i informationsflödet
- "sieve" the flow of information
Usage notes
[edit]Though possibly etymologically unrelated, likely perceived by most native speakers to be from the notion of shaking through a sieve in the form of a galler (lattice).
Conjugation
[edit]| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | gallra | gallras | ||
| supine | gallrat | gallrats | ||
| imperative | gallra | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | gallren | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | gallrar | gallrade | gallras | gallrades |
| ind. plural1 | gallra | gallrade | gallras | gallrades |
| subjunctive2 | gallre | gallrade | gallres | gallrades |
| present participle | gallrande | |||
| past participle | gallrad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.