glappa
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk gleppa (“to slide”), Old Norse glepja. Compare with origin of glipa, glop, gläfsa.
Verb
[edit]glappa (present glappar, preterite glappade, supine glappat, imperative glappa)
- to have an (undesirable) gap (where things move relatively to each other); to be loose
- Skon glappar i hälen
- The back of the sole of the shoe is loose (and moves relatively to the rest of the shoe)
- Kontakten glappar
- The contact is loose (fails intermittently)
- Käften glappar
- You talk too much (your mouth is loose)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of glappa (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | glappa | — | ||
| Supine | glappat | — | ||
| Imperative | glappa | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | glappen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | glappar | glappade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | glappa | glappade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | glappe | glappade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | glappande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]glappa
References
[edit]- glappa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- glappa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- glappa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- glappa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)