spruta
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Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
spruta (present tense sprutar or spruter, past tense spruta or sprutte, past participle spruta or sprutt, present participle sprutande, imperative sprut)
Further reading
- “spruta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pronunciation
Participle
spruta
Etymology
From Old Norse sprúta, from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną.
Pronunciation
Noun
spruta c
- something that emits a jet of liquid (or several); a sprayer, a squirt
- vattenspruta
- water sprayer [generic, like in English]
- brandspruta
- fire engine [including older and non-vehicle equipment – compare brandbil (“fire truck”)]
- (literally, “fire sprayer”)
- a syringe
- sprutor på en bricka
- syringes on a tray
- sprutor och nålar
- syringes and needles
- Sköterskan satte sprutan i armen
- The nurse put the needle [the syringe] in my arm
- vara rädd för sprutor
- be afraid of needles ["syringes" – idiomatic]
- sprutfobi
- needle phobia
Usage notes
Swedish often idiomatically has spruta (“syringe”) where English idiomatically has needle.
Declension
Derived terms
- sprutbyte (“needle exchange”)
See also
Verb
spruta (present sprutar, preterite sprutade, supine sprutat, imperative spruta)
- to (cause to) be ejected as a jet (or several); to spray, to squirt, to spurt
- spruta vatten på någon med en slang
- spray water on someone with a hose
- spruta med en vattenpistol
- squirt with a water gun
- gråta så att tårarna sprutar
- cry one's eyes out ["cry so that the tears spray" – idiomatic]
- Blodet sprutade åt alla håll
- Blood was spraying in all directions
- Formel 1-föraren sprutades ner / blev nedsprutad med champagne
- The Formula 1 driver was sprayed [down] with champagne
- to be forcefully emitted or propelled (of a non-liquid, similar to above)
- Gruset sprutade om rallybilens däck i hårnålskurvan
- [The] gravel sprayed around/about the tires of the rally car in the hairpin curve [more forceful-sounding than "kicked up" or the like]
- to breathe, to spew (fire)
- en eldsprutande drake
- a fire-breathing [fire-spraying] dragon
- (often with in (“in”)) to inject, to syringe
- Vid en intravenös injektion sprutas läkemedlet direkt in i blodet
- During ["at" – when dealing with] an intravenous injection, the medication is injected directly into the bloodstream [blood]
- (informal) to ejaculate (semen)
- Synonyms: få utlösning, ejakulera, (slang) sarra, (slang) sagga, (slang) satsa
- Han sprutade
- He ejaculated
Usage notes
Conjugation
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | spruta | sprutas | ||
| Supine | sprutat | sprutats | ||
| Imperative | spruta | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | spruten | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | sprutar | sprutade | sprutas | sprutades |
| Ind. plural1 | spruta | sprutade | sprutas | sprutades |
| Subjunctive2 | sprute | sprutade | sprutes | sprutades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | sprutande | |||
| Past participle | sprutad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Conjugation of spruta (weak)
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- nål (“needle”)
See also
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