tukta
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]tukt + -a, like German züchten
Verb
[edit]tukta (present tuktar, preterite tuktade, supine tuktat, imperative tukta)
- to discipline, to bring up, to punish, to tame
- 1847, Carl August Hagberg, Swedish translation of William Shakespeare's works
- Så tuktas en argbigga
- The Taming of the Shrew
- 1847, Carl August Hagberg, Swedish translation of William Shakespeare's works
- to arrange, to organize (something growing wild, e.g. a plant, a garden)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of tukta (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | tukta | tuktas | ||
| Supine | tuktat | tuktats | ||
| Imperative | tukta | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | tukten | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | tuktar | tuktade | tuktas | tuktades |
| Ind. plural1 | tukta | tuktade | tuktas | tuktades |
| Subjunctive2 | tukte | tuktade | tuktes | tuktades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | tuktande | |||
| Past participle | tuktad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- tukta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tukta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tukta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)