kosta

From kosto +‎ -a

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosta/
• Rhymes: -osta
• Hyphenation: kos‧ta

kosta (accusative singular kostan, plural kostaj, accusative plural kostajn)

1. costly

From Old Norse kosta, borrowed through Middle Low German from Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (“I stand firm (on price)”).

kosta (third person singular past indicative kostaði, third person plural past indicative kostaðu, supine kostað)

1. to cost

• hvat kostar tað? - how much is it?

kosta

1. inflection of kostaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• katos, katso, kotsa, oksat, sakot, sokat, sotka

From Portuguese costas. Cognate with Kabuverdianu kósta.

kosta

1. back (the backside of the body)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɔsta/

  Rhymes: -ɔsta

kosta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kostaði, supine kostað)

1. to cost

   Þessi hálsfesti kostaði mikla peninga!

   This necklace cost a lot of money!

2. to finance, to bear the cost of

   Foreldrar mínir kostuðu námið mitt.

   My parents financed my education.

kosta

1. indefinite genitive plural of kostur

kosta

1. inflection of kosts:
   1. genitive singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

• kostet

kosta

1. inflection of koste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• koste
• køste (to cost, Telemark, eye dialect)
• kåst (to cost, eye dialect spelling with apocope)

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin constare.

• IPA^(key): /²kɔstɑ/

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)

1. to cost (require payment of a price, cause something to be lost)

The verb is used together with lite (“little”) or mykje (“a lot”). Combinations like kosta dyrt (literally, “to cost dear”) or kosta billeg (literally, “to cost cheap”) are rare.

From the noun kost.

• IPA^(key): /²kʊstɑ/

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)

1. to sweep (clean with a broom)

• “kosta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from *kustuz, whence also Old Norse kostr.

kosta

1. to try [with genitive]
2. (with infinitive) to exert oneself, strive
3. (impersonal) to injure, to hurt [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘in some body part’] (idiomatically translated as "injure/hurt" or "be injured in" with the animate accusative object as the subject)

   þat fall var svá mikit, at kostaði lærlegg hans

   the fall was so great, that he injured his thigh-bone

4. to cost [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’]
5. (impersonal) to cost [with accusative ‘someone’, along with accusative ‘something’, along with genitive or accusative ‘some amount of money’] (idiomatically translated as "cost" with the inanimate accusative object as the subject, i.e. "something costs someone some amount of money")
6. to defray the expenses of

• kostnaðr
• kostr

• Icelandic: kosta
• Faroese: kosta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kosta
• Swedish: kosta
• Danish: koste
  • Norwegian Bokmål: koste

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kosta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German [Term?], from Latin constare.

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kosta (present kostar, preterite kostade, supine kostat, imperative kosta)

1. to cost

• kosta på
• kosta skjortan

• kostnad

• kosta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kosta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• kotas, tokas

Borrowed from Spanish costa, from Galician costa or Catalan costa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkosta/ [ˈkos.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -osta
• Syllabification: kos‧ta

kosta (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. shore; coast

   Synonyms: baybay, baybay-dagat, baybayin, baybayin-dagat, pasigan, dalampasigan, hampasang-alon, pampang, kosto

2. cost; expenses

   Synonyms: gastos, gugol, kosto, kostas

• sakto