söla
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sola"
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate of Danish søle, Norwegian Nynorsk søyle, German suhlen, English soil, sully, Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bisauljan). Doublet of solka.
Verb
[edit]söla (present sölar, preterite sölade, supine sölat, imperative söla)
- to be too (annoyingly) slow (especially during movement), to dawdle, to delay
- Sluta söla! Skynda på!
- Stop being so slow! Hurry up!
- (often with ner (“down”), intransitive) to make a sticky mess (often through spilling)
- (with ner (“down”), transitive) to sully with something sticky and messy (often through spilling)
- söla ner tröjan med glass
- spill ice cream on the shirt
- (glassblowing) to do own private glassblowing in a glass factory in the hours when the daily production activity is not going on
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of söla (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | söla | — | ||
| Supine | sölat | — | ||
| Imperative | söla | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | sölen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | sölar | sölade | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | söla | sölade | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | söle | sölade | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | sölande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- söla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- söla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- söla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- söla in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)