bæta gráu ofan á svart in Icelandic

Forms: bætti gráu ofan á svart [indicative, past, singular, third-person], bætt gráu ofan á svart [supine] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: Literally "to add gray on top of black". Head templates: {{head|is|verb|weak verb||third-person singular past indicative|bætti gráu ofan á svart||{{{22}}} gráu ofan á svart|supine|bætt gráu ofan á svart||{{{33}}} gráu ofan á svart|cat2=weak verbs|head=}} bæta gráu ofan á svart (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bætti gráu ofan á svart, supine bætt gráu ofan á svart)

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally \"to add gray on top of black\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bætti gráu ofan á svart",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bætt gráu ofan á svart",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "10": "bætt gráu ofan á svart",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{33}}} gráu ofan á svart",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "weak verb",
        "4": "",
        "5": "third-person singular past indicative",
        "6": "bætti gráu ofan á svart",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{22}}} gráu ofan á svart",
        "9": "supine",
        "cat2": "weak verbs",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bæta gráu ofan á svart (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bætti gráu ofan á svart, supine bætt gráu ofan á svart)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Icelandic",
  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She was very rude yesterday and made matters worse by not apologizing.",
          "text": "Hún var mjög dónaleg í gær og bætti bara gráu ofan á svart með því að biðjast ekki afsökunar.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make matters worse; to make something worse"
      ],
      "id": "en-bæta_gráu_ofan_á_svart-is-verb-Ya6C6urC",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to make matters worse; to make something worse"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gera illt verra"
        },
        {
          "english": "add insult to injury",
          "tags": [
            "uncommon"
          ],
          "word": "bæta móðgun við meingjörð"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bæta gráu ofan á svart"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally \"to add gray on top of black\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bætti gráu ofan á svart",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bætt gráu ofan á svart",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "10": "bætt gráu ofan á svart",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{33}}} gráu ofan á svart",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "weak verb",
        "4": "",
        "5": "third-person singular past indicative",
        "6": "bætti gráu ofan á svart",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{22}}} gráu ofan á svart",
        "9": "supine",
        "cat2": "weak verbs",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "bæta gráu ofan á svart (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bætti gráu ofan á svart, supine bætt gráu ofan á svart)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Icelandic",
  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Icelandic idioms",
        "Icelandic lemmas",
        "Icelandic multiword terms",
        "Icelandic terms with usage examples",
        "Icelandic verbs",
        "Icelandic weak verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She was very rude yesterday and made matters worse by not apologizing.",
          "text": "Hún var mjög dónaleg í gær og bætti bara gráu ofan á svart með því að biðjast ekki afsökunar.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make matters worse; to make something worse"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to make matters worse; to make something worse"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gera illt verra"
    },
    {
      "english": "add insult to injury",
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "word": "bæta móðgun við meingjörð"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bæta gráu ofan á svart"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Icelandic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"bæta gráu ofan á svart" meaning in Icelandic

Verb