sovra
See also: sovra-
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈso.vra/, /ˈso.vra/*
- Rhymes: -ovra
- Hyphenation: só‧vra
Preposition
sovra
- (archaic, literary) alternative form of sopra
Adverb
sovra
- (archaic, literary) alternative form of sopra
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sôʋra/
- Hyphenation: sov‧ra
Noun
sȍvra f (Cyrillic spelling со̏вра)
- alternative form of sȍfra (“low dining table”)
References
- Josip Hamm, editor (1955–1956), “sȍvra”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 15, Zagreb: JAZU, page 934
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German süvern, sovern, suvern (“to clean”) or a related form, cognate with German säubern.
Verb
sovra (present sovrar, preterite sovrade, supine sovrat, imperative sovra)
- (transitively with bland (“among”) or i (“in”)) to select some parts (to be kept or the like) and reject other parts; to sift, to sort, to winnow, etc.
- sovra bland informationen ― sift through the information
- sovra i materialet ― sift through the material
- sovra bland anbuden ― winnow down the list of offers
- (obsolete except as a special case) to sift (ore)
Conjugation
active | passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | sovra | sovras | ||
supine | sovrat | sovrats | ||
imperative | sovra | — | ||
imper. plural1 | sovren | — | ||
present | past | present | past | |
indicative | sovrar | sovrade | sovras | sovrades |
ind. plural1 | sovra | sovrade | sovras | sovrades |
subjunctive2 | sovre | sovrade | sovres | sovrades |
present participle | sovrande | |||
past participle | sovrad |
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.