kosta

See also: Kosta and kostā

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse kosta, borrowed through Middle Low German from Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (on price)”).

Verb

kosta (third person singular past indicative kostaði, third person plural past indicative kostaðu, supine kostað)

1. to cost

Conjugation

Conjugation of kosta (group v-30)

infinitive	kosta
supine	kostað
	present	past
first singular	kosti	kostaði
second singular	kostar	kostaði
third singular	kostar	kostaði
plural	kosta	kostaðu
participle (a6)1	kostandi	kostaður
	imperative
singular	kosta!
plural	kostið!

¹Only the past participle being declined.

Derived terms

• hvat kostar tað? - how much is it?

Finnish

Verb

kosta

1. inflection of kostaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• katos, katso, kotsa, oksat, sakot, sokat, sotka

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese costas. Cognate with Kabuverdianu kósta.

Noun

kosta

1. back (the backside of the body)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔsta/

  Rhymes: -ɔsta

Etymology 1

Verb

kosta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kostaði, supine kostað)

1. to cost

   Þessi hálsfesti kostaði mikla peninga!

   This necklace cost a lot of money!

2. to finance, to bear the cost of

   Foreldrar mínir kostuðu námið mitt.

   My parents financed my education.

Conjugation

kosta — active voice (germynd)

infinitive (nafnháttur)		að kosta
supine (sagnbót)		kostað
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		kostandi
	indicative (framsöguháttur)			subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur)
present (nútíð)	ég kosta	við kostum	present (nútíð)	ég kosti	við kostum
	þú kostar	þið kostið		þú kostir	þið kostið
	hann, hún, það kostar	þeir, þær, þau kosta		hann, hún, það kosti	þeir, þær, þau kosti
past (þátíð)	ég kostaði	við kostuðum	past (þátíð)	ég kostaði	við kostuðum
	þú kostaðir	þið kostuðuð		þú kostaðir	þið kostuðuð
	hann, hún, það kostaði	þeir, þær, þau kostuðu		hann, hún, það kostaði	þeir, þær, þau kostuðu
imperative (boðháttur)	kosta (þú)	kostið (þið)
	Forms with appended personal pronoun
	kostaðu	kostiði *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

kostast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)

infinitive (nafnháttur)		að kostast
supine (sagnbót)		kostast
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		kostandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
	indicative (framsöguháttur)			subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur)
present (nútíð)	ég kostast	við kostumst	present (nútíð)	ég kostist	við kostumst
	þú kostast	þið kostist		þú kostist	þið kostist
	hann, hún, það kostast	þeir, þær, þau kostast		hann, hún, það kostist	þeir, þær, þau kostist
past (þátíð)	ég kostaðist	við kostuðumst	past (þátíð)	ég kostaðist	við kostuðumst
	þú kostaðist	þið kostuðust		þú kostaðist	þið kostuðust
	hann, hún, það kostaðist	þeir, þær, þau kostuðust		hann, hún, það kostaðist	þeir, þær, þau kostuðust
imperative (boðháttur)	kostast (þú)	kostist (þið)
	Forms with appended personal pronoun
	kostastu	kostisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

kostaður — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)

strong declension (sterk beyging)	singular (eintala)				plural (fleirtala)
	masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)		masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)
nominative (nefnifall)	kostaður	kostuð	kostað		kostaðir	kostaðar	kostuð
accusative (þolfall)	kostaðan	kostaða	kostað		kostaða	kostaðar	kostuð
dative (þágufall)	kostuðum	kostaðri	kostuðu		kostuðum	kostuðum	kostuðum
genitive (eignarfall)	kostaðs	kostaðrar	kostaðs		kostaðra	kostaðra	kostaðra
weak declension (veik beyging)	singular (eintala)				plural (fleirtala)
	masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)		masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)
nominative (nefnifall)	kostaði	kostaða	kostaða		kostuðu	kostuðu	kostuðu
accusative (þolfall)	kostaða	kostuðu	kostaða		kostuðu	kostuðu	kostuðu
dative (þágufall)	kostaða	kostuðu	kostaða		kostuðu	kostuðu	kostuðu
genitive (eignarfall)	kostaða	kostuðu	kostaða		kostuðu	kostuðu	kostuðu

Etymology 2

Noun

kosta

1. indefinite genitive plural of kostur

Latvian

Participle

kosta

1. inflection of kosts:
   1. genitive singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• kostet

Verb

kosta

1. inflection of koste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• koste
• køste (to cost, Telemark, eye dialect)
• kåst (to cost, eye dialect spelling with apocope)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin constare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kɔstɑ/

Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)

1. to cost (require payment of a price, cause something to be lost)

Etymology 2

From the noun kost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kʊstɑ/

Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)

1. to sweep (clean with a broom)

References

• “kosta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from *kustuz, whence also Old Norse kostr.

Verb

kosta

1. to try [with genitive]
2. (with infinitive) to exert oneself, strive
3. (impersonal) to injure, to hurt [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘in some body part’] (idiomatically translated as "injure/hurt" or "be injured in" with the animate accusative object as the subject)

   þat fall var svá mikit, at kostaði lærlegg hans

   the fall was so great, that he injured his thigh-bone

4. to cost [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’]
5. (impersonal) to cost [with accusative ‘someone’, along with accusative ‘something’, along with genitive or accusative ‘some amount of money’] (idiomatically translated as "cost" with the inanimate accusative object as the subject, i.e. "something costs someone some amount of money")
6. to defray the expenses of

Conjugation

Conjugation of kosta — active (weak class 2)

infinitive	kosta
present participle	kostandi
past participle	kostaðr
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	kosta	kostaða
2nd-person singular	kostar	kostaðir
3rd-person singular	kostar	kostaði
1st-person plural	kostum	kostuðum
2nd-person plural	kostið	kostuðuð
3rd-person plural	kosta	kostuðu
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	kosta	kostaða
2nd-person singular	kostir	kostaðir
3rd-person singular	kosti	kostaði
1st-person plural	kostim	kostaðim
2nd-person plural	kostið	kostaðið
3rd-person plural	kosti	kostaði
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	kosta
1st-person plural	kostum
2nd-person plural	kostið

Conjugation of kosta — mediopassive (weak class 2)

infinitive	kostask
present participle	kostandisk
past participle	kostazk
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	kostumk	kostuðumk
2nd-person singular	kostask	kostaðisk
3rd-person singular	kostask	kostaðisk
1st-person plural	kostumsk	kostuðumsk
2nd-person plural	kostizk	kostuðuzk
3rd-person plural	kostask	kostuðusk
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	kostumk	kostuðumk
2nd-person singular	kostisk	kostaðisk
3rd-person singular	kostisk	kostaðisk
1st-person plural	kostimsk	kostaðimsk
2nd-person plural	kostizk	kostaðizk
3rd-person plural	kostisk	kostaðisk
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	kostask
1st-person plural	kostumsk
2nd-person plural	kostizk

Related terms

• kostnaðr
• kostr

Descendants

• Icelandic: kosta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kosta, koste, køste (to cost, Telemark, eye dialect), kåst (to cost, eye dialect spelling with apocope)

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kosta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin constare.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

kosta (present kostar, preterite kostade, supine kostat, imperative kosta)

1. to cost

Conjugation

Conjugation of kosta (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	kosta		—
supine	kostat		—
imperative	kosta		—
imper. plural1	kosten		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	kostar	kostade	—	—
ind. plural1	kosta	kostade	—	—
subjunctive2	koste	kostade	—	—
present participle		kostande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• kosta på
• kosta skjortan

Related terms

• kostnad

References

• kosta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kosta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• kotas, tokas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish costa, from Galician costa or Catalan costa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkosta/ [ˈkos.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -osta
• Syllabification: kos‧ta

Noun

kosta (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. shore; coast

   Synonyms: baybay, baybay-dagat, baybayin, baybayin-dagat, pasigan, dalampasigan, hampasang-alon, pampang, kosto

2. cost; expenses

   Synonyms: gastos, gugol, kosto, kostas

Derived terms

• dagang-kosta
• mayang-kosta

Related terms

• guwardakosta
• interkostal
• kostado

Anagrams

• sakto