tangera
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]tangera
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German tangieren, from Latin tangere.
Verb
[edit]tangera (present tangerar, preterite tangerade, supine tangerat, imperative tangera)
- (geometry) to be tangent (to something)
- Linjen tangerar cirkeln i punkten (1, 1)
- The line is tangent to the circle at the point (1, 1)
- (figuratively) to equal, to match (usually a previous result)
- Nisse tangerade världsrekordet
- Nisse matched the world record
- tangera sitt personbästa
- match one's personal best
- Nisse tangerade Olle
- Nisse matched Olle('s record)
- (figuratively) to touch on; to border on
- Rapporten tangerar vissa andra områden som inte är huvudfokus
- The report touches on certain other areas that are not the main focus
- något som tangerar högförräderi
- something that borders on high treason
- (figuratively) to lightly touch
- Bollen tangerade målstolpen
- The ball grazed the goalpost
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of tangera (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | tangera | tangeras | ||
| Supine | tangerat | tangerats | ||
| Imperative | tangera | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | tangeren | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | tangerar | tangerade | tangeras | tangerades |
| Ind. plural1 | tangera | tangerade | tangeras | tangerades |
| Subjunctive2 | tangere | tangerade | tangeres | tangerades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | tangerande | |||
| Past participle | tangerad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||