vakna

From Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaʰkna/
• Rhymes: -aʰkna

vakna (third person singular past indicative vaknaði, third person plural past indicative vaknaðu, supine vaknað)

1. to wake up

From Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvahkna/
  • Rhymes: -ahkna

vakna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative vaknaði, supine vaknað)

1. (intransitive) to wake up, to awaken

• vakna við
• vakna við vondan draum
• vaknaður

• rísa
• rumska
• vekja

• vakne

From Old Norse vakna. Akin to English waken.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɑknɑ/, /²ʋɑːknɑ/

vakna (present tense vaknar, past tense vakna, past participle vakna, passive infinitive vaknast, present participle vaknande, imperative vakna/vakn)

1. to wake up

• “vakna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

vakna

1. to wake up

• Swedish: vakna

• IPA^(key): /²vɑːkna/

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From Old Swedish vakna, from Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-.

vakna (present vaknar, preterite vaknade, supine vaknat, imperative vakna)

1. (intransitive) to wake up (become awake – compare väcka)

   Har du vaknat på fel sida i dag?

   Did you wake up on the wrong side today? [Are you in a bad mood for some reason? – idiomatic]

   Jag vaknade med ett ryck

   I woke up with a start

   Staden hade precis börjat vakna

   The city was just starting to wake up

   • 1996, Drängarna [The Farmhands], “Kung över ängarna [King of [over] the Meadows]”, in Fint vettö [vettu] [Nice Y'know]‎^[1]:

     Jag lägger mig i gräset ner. Ligger still och bara ler. Slumrar till och snarkar tyst. Drömmer om en kvinnas byst. Då ser jag nån som emot mig går, liderlig med utsläppt hår. Hon är vacker som en dag. I samma stund så vaknar jag. Svär [bit hard to make out the S] ett tag men tänker sen: Hon kommer nog till mig inatt igen. Ännu lyser solen stark i skog och mark.

     I lie down in the grass ["Jag lägger mig ner i gräset" is the usual word order. Ner (“down”) can be skipped]. [I] lie still and just grin [or smile]. [I] doze off and snore quietly. [I] dream of a woman's bosom. Then I see someone walking towards me ["Då ser jag nån som går emot mig" is the usual word order], lustful [in an unrestrained manner – old-fashioned – often used to imply "lecherous," but also more generally] with her hair let down [with out-released hair]. She is pretty as a picture ["beautiful as a day" – idiom]. At that moment [in the same moment] I wake up. [I] swear for a bit but then [I] think: She will probably come to me tonight again ["Igen inatt" is a more common word order in Swedish as well]. The sun still shines bright ["yet shines (V2 word order) the sun strong" – could be translated as "still the sun shines bright" to match, but sounds less awkward in Swedish] in woods and fields ["forest and (wild) land" – idiomatic]. [Could also be put in the present continuous. Matches the intuition in Swedish with the [I]s. See the usage notes for -r.]

• vacker
• vaka
• vaken
• väcka

vakna

1. inflection of vaken:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• vakna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vakna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vakna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• vakan, vanka