tigga
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Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
tigga
- inflection of tigge:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- tigge (e- and split infinitives)
Etymology
From Old Norse þiggja, from Proto-Germanic *þigjaną.
Verb
tigga (present tense tiggar or tigg, past tense tigga or tagg, supine tigga or tigge, past participle tigga or tiggen, present participle tiggande, imperative tigg)
- to beg
Derived terms
References
- “tigga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish þiggia, from Old Norse þiggja (“to receive”), from Proto-Germanic *þigjaną.
Verb
tigga (present tigger, preterite tiggde, supine tiggt, imperative tigg)
- to beg (as a beggar)
- en tiggare som sitter på gatan och tigger (pengar)
- a beggar who sits on the street and begs (for money)
- försörja sig genom att tigga
- make a living by begging
- På en vecka lyckades hon bara tigga ihop 500 kronor
- In a week, she only managed to earn 500 kronor through begging [only managed to beg together 500 kronor]
- to panhandle
- (figuratively, more or less weakened) to beg, to ask for
- tigga om några dagar ledigt
- beg for a few days off
- to scrounge
- tigga till sig en cigarett
- scrounge [beg to oneself] a cigarette
Conjugation
| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tigga | tiggas | ||
| supine | tiggt | tiggts | ||
| imperative | tigg | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | tiggen | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | tigger | tiggde | tiggs, tigges | tiggdes |
| ind. plural1 | tigga | tiggde | tiggas | tiggdes |
| subjunctive2 | tigge | tiggde | tigges | tiggdes |
| present participle | tiggande | |||
| past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Synonyms
- (to plead with someone): tigga och be
Related terms
See also
References
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