pracka på
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German prachen (“to beg, to panhandle”). Compare dialectal German prachern and Pracher, as well as Saterland Frisian prakken (“to press, to push”).
Verb
pracka på (present prackar på, preterite prackade på, supine prackat på, imperative pracka på)
- to foist upon, to push (trick or force someone to accept something (undesirable))
- En försäljare var här och försökte pracka på mig en dammsugare
- A salesman was here and tried to push a vacuum cleaner on me
Usage notes
Stress on på.
Conjugation
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | pracka på | prackas på | ||
| Supine | prackat på | prackats på | ||
| Imperative | pracka på | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | pracken på | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | prackar på | prackade på | prackas på | prackades på |
| Ind. plural1 | pracka på | prackade på | prackas på | prackades på |
| Subjunctive2 | pracke på | prackade på | prackes på | prackades på |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | påprackande | |||
| Past participle | påprackad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Conjugation of pracka (weak)
References
- pracka på in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- pracka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- pracka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- pracka in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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