väga
See also: Appendix:Variations of "vaga"
Estonian
Etymology
From väega.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvæɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈvæɡ̊ɑ]
- Rhymes: -æɡɑ
- Hyphenation: vä‧ga
Adverb
väga (not comparable)
- very
- 1926-1933, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, chapter XXVII, in Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice)[1], page 230:
- Aga siis sündis väga imelik asi, mis sünnib väga sagedasti ilmalikkude asjadega, kui jumalamehed oma käe nende külge pistavad: mida rohkem köster lepitas, seda rohkem mehed marru läksid, nagu oleksid isamaalised asjad omakasulised äriasjad või nagu oleksid nad ainult selleks jumalast maailma loodud, et üksteist isiklikult tõrvata ja haavata.
- But then a very strange thing happened, which happens very often in worldly affairs, when men of God put their hand into them: the more the pastor conciliated, the more the men became enraged, as if patriotic affairs were self-interested business affairs, or as if they had been created by God into the world only for this purpose to defame and hurt each other personally.
References
- väga in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “väga”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish vægha, from Old Norse vega (compare Icelandic vega), from Proto-Germanic *weganą, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.
Verb
väga (present väger, preterite vägde, supine vägt, imperative väg)
- weigh (to determine the weight of an object)
- weigh; have as weight
- Tomas väger 75 kg.
- Tomas weighs 75 kg.
- to balance on something (usually a chair)
- Han vägde på stolen.
- He rocked on the chair.
Conjugation
| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | väga | vägas | ||
| supine | vägt | vägts | ||
| imperative | väg | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | vägen | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | väger | vägde | vägs, väges | vägdes |
| ind. plural1 | väga | vägde | vägas | vägdes |
| subjunctive2 | väge | vägde | väges | vägdes |
| present participle | vägande | |||
| past participle | vägd | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Further reading
- väga in Svensk ordbok.