"må" meaning in Swedish

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Verb

IPA: /moː/, [moə̯] Audio: Sv-må.ogg [Gotland]
Etymology: Apocopic form of måga, from Old Swedish magha, from Old Norse mega, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe, from root *megʰ-. Etymology templates: {{root|sv|ine-pro|*megʰ-}}, {{apocopic form|sv|måga}} Apocopic form of måga, {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|magha}} Old Swedish magha, {{inh|sv|non|mega}} Old Norse mega, {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*maganą}} Proto-Germanic *maganą, {{inh|sv|ine-pro|*(me)mógʰe}} Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe, {{m|ine-pro|*megʰ-}} *megʰ- Head templates: {{head|sv|verb|present|må|preterite|måtte||-||-|head=må}} må (present må, preterite måtte) Inflection templates: {{sv-conj-irreg|må|må|måtte|pl=må|ppl=måtte|psbj=måtte|sbj=må}}, {{sv-conj-irreg|måga|må|måtte|head=måga|note=archaic|pl=måga|ppl=måtte|psbj=måtte|sbj=måge}} Forms: [present], måtte [preterite], irregular [table-tags], [active, infinitive], - [infinitive, passive], - [active, supine], - [passive, supine], - [active, imperative], - [imperative, passive], - [active, archaic, imperative, plural], - [archaic, imperative, passive, plural], [active, indicative, present], måtte [active, indicative, past], - [indicative, passive, present], - [indicative, passive, past], [active, archaic, indicative, plural, present], måtte [active, archaic, indicative, past, plural], - [archaic, indicative, passive, plural, present], - [archaic, indicative, passive, past, plural], [active, dated, present, subjunctive], måtte [active, dated, past, subjunctive], - [dated, passive, present, subjunctive], - [dated, passive, past, subjunctive], - [participle, present], - [participle, past], archaic irregular [table-tags], måga [active, infinitive], - [infinitive, passive], - [active, supine], - [passive, supine], - [active, imperative], - [imperative, passive], - [active, archaic, imperative, plural], - [archaic, imperative, passive, plural], [active, indicative, present], måtte [active, indicative, past], - [indicative, passive, present], - [indicative, passive, past], måga [active, archaic, indicative, plural, present], måtte [active, archaic, indicative, past, plural], - [archaic, indicative, passive, plural, present], - [archaic, indicative, passive, past, plural], måge [active, dated, present, subjunctive], måtte [active, dated, past, subjunctive], - [dated, passive, present, subjunctive], - [dated, passive, past, subjunctive], - [participle, present], - [participle, past]
  1. (often solemn like in English outside idiomatic phrases) may
    Sense id: en-må-sv-verb-7k2YjGXe Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 33 29 38
  2. (dated) must (can be assumed to) Tags: dated Synonyms: måste
    Sense id: en-må-sv-verb-pl3zPtnk Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 33 29 38
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /moː/, [moə̯] Audio: Sv-må.ogg [Gotland]
Etymology: It has developed from the former verb. Head templates: {{head|sv|verbs|present|mår|preterite|mådde|supine|mått|imperative|må|head=}} må (present mår, preterite mådde, supine mått, imperative må) Inflection templates: {{sv-conj-wk|må|end=vw|nopp=1}} Forms: mår [present], mådde [preterite], mått [supine], [imperative], weak [table-tags], [active, infinitive], mås [infinitive, passive], mått [active, supine], måtts [passive, supine], [active, imperative], - [imperative, passive], mån [active, archaic, imperative, plural], - [archaic, imperative, passive, plural], mår [active, indicative, present], mådde [active, indicative, past], mås [indicative, passive, present], måddes [indicative, passive, past], [active, archaic, indicative, plural, present], mådde [active, archaic, indicative, past, plural], mås [archaic, indicative, passive, plural, present], måddes [archaic, indicative, passive, past, plural], [active, dated, present, subjunctive], mådde [active, dated, past, subjunctive], mås [dated, passive, present, subjunctive], måddes [dated, passive, past, subjunctive], mående [participle, present], - [participle, past]
  1. to feel (good or bad), to be (ill or well) Derived forms: må illa
    Sense id: en-må-sv-verb-a9JkFQoG Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 33 29 38
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*megʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "måga"
      },
      "expansion": "Apocopic form of måga",
      "name": "apocopic form"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gmq-osw",
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      },
      "expansion": "Old Swedish magha",
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      "name": "inh"
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    },
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    },
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      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "archaic irregular",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "måtte",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "dated",
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        "subjunctive"
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        "passive",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
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        "present"
      ]
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      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
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      },
      "expansion": "må (present må, preterite måtte)",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "må",
        "2": "må",
        "3": "måtte",
        "pl": "må",
        "ppl": "måtte",
        "psbj": "måtte",
        "sbj": "må"
      },
      "name": "sv-conj-irreg"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "måga",
        "2": "må",
        "3": "måtte",
        "head": "måga",
        "note": "archaic",
        "pl": "måga",
        "ppl": "måtte",
        "psbj": "måtte",
        "sbj": "måge"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 29 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Yes, may she live a hundred years! (birthday congratulation song)",
          "text": "Ja, må hon leva uti hundrade år!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "[…] wishing that we after this sad and arduous life, following God's will may find and meet each other in the heavenly and imperishable, by God for us, prepared life and joy.",
          "ref": "1885, Carl G. Starbäck, Per O. Bäcström, Berättelser ur svenska historien, Fjerde bandet. Gustaf II Adolf, Konungen tager afsked af ständerna, page 276",
          "text": "[…] önskandes att vi efter detta usla och mödosamma lifvet efter Guds behag måga finnas och möta hvarandra i det himmelska och oförgängliga hos Gud oss beredda lifvet och glädjen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "most peaceful have the dead.",
          "ref": "1915, Dan Andersson, Kolvaktarens Visor, I timmerkojan på Sami",
          "roman": "Many are without and have it hard -",
          "text": "Aldrig må vi kalla vårt öde hårt,\nvi som äga värme och föda!\nMånga äro utan och hava det svårt -\nfridsammast hava de döda.\nNever may we call our destiny hard,\nwe who own warmth and food!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "May the black, salty waters cool cheeks feverishly red. May we be miles [tens of kilometers] from [the] life before the morning is full. Not of this world I was and endless hardship I suffered for my anxiousness [disquietude (restlessness, etc.) or worry], unbelief [religious doubts] and my hot love's sake.",
          "ref": "1972, “Omkring tiggarn [tiggaren] från Luossa [Around the beggar from Luossa]”, in Dan Andersson (lyrics), Gunde Johansson (music), Våra vackraste visor Vol. 2 [Our most beautiful songs Vol. 2], performed by Hootenanny Singers",
          "text": "Må de svarta, salta vatten svalka kinder feberröda. Må vi vara mil från livet innan morgonen är full. Ej av denna världen var jag och oändlig vedermöda led jag för min oro, otro och min heta kärleks skull.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "may"
      ],
      "id": "en-må-sv-verb-7k2YjGXe",
      "links": [
        [
          "may",
          "may"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "often solemn like in English outside idiomatic phrases",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often solemn like in English outside idiomatic phrases) may"
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "He must have a bad memory",
          "text": "Han måtte ha dåligt minne",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "must (can be assumed to)"
      ],
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        [
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          "must"
        ]
      ],
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        "(dated) must (can be assumed to)"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "måste"
        }
      ],
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      ]
    }
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[moə̯]"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Gotland"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Gotland)"
    }
  ],
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}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "It has developed from the former verb.",
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      "form": "mår",
      "tags": [
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mådde",
      "tags": [
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mått",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "må",
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        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
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    },
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        "passive"
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    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
    {
      "form": "måtts",
      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
    {
      "form": "må",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mån",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "archaic",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "imperative",
        "passive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "indicative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mådde",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "active",
        "indicative",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "mås",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "indicative",
        "passive",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "måddes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "passive",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "må",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mådde",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "active",
        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mås",
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          "ref": "1885, Carl G. Starbäck, Per O. Bäcström, Berättelser ur svenska historien, Fjerde bandet. Gustaf II Adolf, Konungen tager afsked af ständerna, page 276",
          "text": "[…] önskandes att vi efter detta usla och mödosamma lifvet efter Guds behag måga finnas och möta hvarandra i det himmelska och oförgängliga hos Gud oss beredda lifvet och glädjen.",
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          "ref": "1972, “Omkring tiggarn [tiggaren] från Luossa [Around the beggar from Luossa]”, in Dan Andersson (lyrics), Gunde Johansson (music), Våra vackraste visor Vol. 2 [Our most beautiful songs Vol. 2], performed by Hootenanny Singers",
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    {
      "form": "mådde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mås",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "passive",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "måddes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "indicative",
        "passive",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "må",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "dated",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mådde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "dated",
        "past",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mås",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "passive",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "måddes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "passive",
        "past",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mående",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "10": "må",
        "2": "verbs",
        "3": "present",
        "4": "mår",
        "5": "preterite",
        "6": "mådde",
        "7": "supine",
        "8": "mått",
        "9": "imperative",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "må (present mår, preterite mådde, supine mått, imperative må)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "må",
        "end": "vw",
        "nopp": "1"
      },
      "name": "sv-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I am fine. How are you?",
          "text": "Jag mår bra. Hur mår du?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I feel sick",
          "text": "Jag mår illa",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Den polska hären led oerhördt af den stränga vintern, under det svenskarne mådde som pärlor i guld. (archaic language and spelling)",
          "text": "The Polish army suffered enormously from the strong winter cold, while the Swedes felt like pearls in gold.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to feel (good or bad), to be (ill or well)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "feel",
          "feel"
        ],
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/moː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[moə̯]"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Sv-må.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/01/Sv-m%C3%A5.ogg/Sv-m%C3%A5.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Sv-m%C3%A5.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Gotland"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Gotland)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "må"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.

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