spika
Icelandic
Noun
spika
- indefinite genitive plural of spik
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From spȉker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spîka/
- Hyphenation: spi‧ka
Noun
spȉka f (Cyrillic spelling спи̏ка)
References
- “spika”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English speaker.[1]
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Noun
spika class IX (plural spika class X)
- speaker (device to amplify sound)
Noun
spika class I (plural maspika class II)
References
Swedish
Etymology
Verb
spika (present spikar, preterite spikade, supine spikat, imperative spika)
- to drive nails (with a hammer), to nail, to hammer
- spika med en hammare
- drive nails with a hammer
- spika fast stolarna i golvet
- nail [drive-nails fast/fixed] the chairs to the floor
- spika upp en anslagstavla på väggen
- nail [drive-nails up] a bulletin board to the wall
- Grannens spikande väckte mig
- My neighbor's hammering woke me up
- to fix a formerly tentative decision, to nail down
- Vi har inte spikat semesterplanerna än
- We haven't nailed down the vacation plans yet
- to publicize a dissertation or PhD thesis
- (slang) to do perfectly, to get full points (on a test or an exam)
Conjugation
| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | spika | spikas | ||
| supine | spikat | spikats | ||
| imperative | spika | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | spiken | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | spikar | spikade | spikas | spikades |
| ind. plural1 | spika | spikade | spikas | spikades |
| subjunctive2 | spike | spikade | spikes | spikades |
| present participle | spikande | |||
| past participle | spikad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Related terms
- spikare
- spikning
- spik
See also
References
- spika in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- spika in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- spika in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)