klökas

Swedish

Etymology

Cognate to Danish kløjes and Icelandic klígja, originally from a root *klak- (”to break”). For the semantic development, compare German erbrechen and Danish brække.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kløːkas/
• Rhymes: -øːkas

• Audio (Småland):

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Verb

klökas (present klöks, preterite klöktes, supine klökts, imperative klöks)

1. (dialectal, Southern, deponent) to feel as if one almost has to throw up; feel nauseous; to throw up
   • 2006, “Brist på struktur i förutsägbar komedi [Lack of structure in predictable comedy]”, in Sydsvenskan‎^[1]:

     Men när höjden av komik är en man som i en utdragen scen klöks och blir nerbajsad vid ett blöjbyte förstår man att filmen har problem.

     But when the pinnacle of comedy is a man who in a drawn-out scene almost throws up and get covered in poop, you understand that the movie has problems.

Conjugation

Conjugation of klökas (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	—		klökas
Supine	—		klökts
Imperative	—		klöks
Imper. plural1	—		klökens
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	—	—	klöks, klökes	klöktes
Ind. plural1	—	—	klökas	klöktes
Subjunctive2	—	—	klökes	klöktes
	Participles
Present participle	klökandes
Past participle	—
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• klökning

References

• Klökas. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 1 February 2018.
• klökas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)