smaska
Swedish
editEtymology
editOnomatopoeic. Compare English smash.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editsmaska (present smaskar, preterite smaskade, supine smaskat, imperative smaska)
- to eat noisily (due to chewing with one's mouth open)
- Sluta smaska!
- Stop chewing with your mouth open!
- (by extension) to munch (on something tasty)
- Hon smaskade på en skinkmacka
- She munched on a ham sandwich
- 1980, Elsi Rydsjö, När morgonvinden blåser:
- Hon smaskade belåtet av brödet och fläsket.
- She was slurping happily from the bread and the pork.
- (now rare) to make a squelching sound
- 1980, Ulla Trenter, Skyddsänglarna:
- Hon släppte ner skurtrasan på golvet så att den smaskade och satte händerna i sidorna.
- She dropped the swab on the floor so that it squelched and put her arms akimbo.
Conjugation
editConjugation of smaska (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | smaska | smaskas | ||
| Supine | smaskat | smaskats | ||
| Imperative | smaska | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | smasken | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | smaskar | smaskade | smaskas | smaskades |
| Ind. plural1 | smaska | smaskade | smaskas | smaskades |
| Subjunctive2 | smaske | smaskade | smaskes | smaskades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | smaskande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- smaska in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- smaska in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- smaska in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- smaska in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)