klökas
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Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate to Danish kløjes and Icelandic klígja, originally from a root *klak- (”to break”). For the semantic development, compare German erbrechen and Danish brække.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
klökas (present klöks, preterite klöktes, supine klökts, imperative klöks)
- (dialectal, Southern, deponent) to feel as if one almost has to throw up; feel nauseous; to throw up
- 2006, “Brist på struktur i förutsägbar komedi [Lack of structure in predictable comedy]”, in Sydsvenskan[1]:
- Men när höjden av komik är en man som i en utdragen scen klöks och blir nerbajsad vid ett blöjbyte förstår man att filmen har problem.
- But when the pinnacle of comedy is a man who in a drawn-out scene almost throws up and get covered in poop, you understand that the movie has problems.
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of klökas (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | — | klökas | ||
| Supine | — | klökts | ||
| Imperative | — | klöks | ||
| Imper. plural1 | — | klökens | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | — | — | klöks, klökes | klöktes |
| Ind. plural1 | — | — | klökas | klöktes |
| Subjunctive2 | — | — | klökes | klöktes |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | klökandes | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Klökas. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 1 February 2018.
- klökas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)