tystna
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]tystna (present tystnar, preterite tystnade, supine tystnat, imperative tystna)
- (intransitive) to cease to make a sound, to fall silent
- Han tystnade
- He fell silent
- (intransitive) to stop (of something that makes a sound), to go silent
- Sången hade tystnat
- The (sound of) singing had stopped
- 1967, “Lyckliga gatan [[The] Happy Street]”, Britt Lindeborg (lyrics), Adriano Celentano (music)[1]performed by Anna-Lena Löfgren:
- Lyckliga gatan, du finns inte mer. Du har försvunnit med hela kvarter. Tystnat har leken, tystnat har sången. Högt över marken svävar betongen. När jag kom åter var allt så förändrat. Trampat och skövlat, fördärvat och skändat. Skall mellan dessa höga hus en dag stiga en sång, lika förunderlig och skön som den, vi hört en gång?
- [The] Happy Street, you no longer exist. You have disappeared with entire neighborhoods [blocks]. Gone silent has the play, gone silent has the song. High above the ground the concrete hovers. When I came back ["came again" – somewhat dated or poetic], everything was so changed. Trampled and devastated, ruined and desecrated. Shall ["skall" is synonymous with "ska" except matching "shall" in tone] between these tall buildings one day rise a song, as wondrous and fair as the one we [have] once heard?
Usage notes
[edit]- For the transitive verb ("to silence"), see tysta.
- Sometimes (somewhat poetically) of something having stopped forever in (sense 1.1).
Conjugation
[edit]| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tystna | — | ||
| supine | tystnat | — | ||
| imperative | tystna | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | tystnen | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | tystnar | tystnade | — | — |
| ind. plural1 | tystna | tystnade | — | — |
| subjunctive2 | tystne | tystnade | — | — |
| present participle | tystnande | |||
| past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- tystna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tystna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tystna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)