mejka sense

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • mejka sens

Etymology

Borrowed from English make sense. In contrast to other Scandinavian languages like Danish give mening, Norwegian Bokmål gi mening and Norwegian Nynorsk gjeva meining, Swedish lacks a perfect equivalent for "make sense." Compare also Icelandic meika sens, Dutch sense maken.

Verb

mejka sense (present mejkar sense, preterite mejkade sense, supine mejkat sense, imperative mejka sense)

  1. (slang, often humorous, nonstandard) to make sense (be coherent or reasonable)
    Jag tyckte det han sa mejkade sense
    I thought what he said made sense

Conjugation

Conjugation of mejka (weak)
active passive
infinitive mejka sense —
supine mejkat sense —
imperative mejka sense —
imper. plural1 mejken sense —
present past present past
indicative mejkar sense mejkade sense — —
ind. plural1 mejka sense mejkade sense — —
subjunctive2 mejke sense mejkade sense — —
present participle —
past participle —

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

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