"snappa" meaning in Swedish

See snappa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Low German snappen (“speak rapidly”), which is probably related to snavel (“beak, snout”), from Old Saxon *snavel, from Proto-Germanic *snabulaz. Cognate of German schnappen, Dutch snappen. Compare origin of snopen. Etymology templates: {{bor+|sv|gml|snappen||speak rapidly}} Borrowed from Middle Low German snappen (“speak rapidly”), {{der|sv|osx|*snavel}} Old Saxon *snavel, {{der|sv|gem-pro|*snabulaz}} Proto-Germanic *snabulaz, {{cog|de|schnappen}} German schnappen, {{cog|nl|snappen}} Dutch snappen Head templates: {{head|sv|verbs|present|snappar|preterite|snappade|supine|snappat|imperative|snappa|head=}} snappa (present snappar, preterite snappade, supine snappat, imperative snappa) Inflection templates: {{sv-conj-wk|nopp=1}} Forms: snappar [present], snappade [preterite], snappat [supine], snappa [imperative], no-table-tags [table-tags], snappa [active, infinitive], snappas [infinitive, passive], snappat [active, supine], snappats [passive, supine], snappa [active, imperative], - [imperative, passive], snappen [active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form], - [archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive], snappar [active, indicative, present], snappade [active, indicative, past], snappas [indicative, passive, present], snappades [indicative, passive, past], snappa [active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form, present], snappade [active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form, past], snappas [archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive, present], snappades [archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive, past], snappe [active, dated, present, subjunctive], snappade [active, dated, past, subjunctive], snappes [dated, passive, present, subjunctive], snappades [dated, passive, past, subjunctive], snappande [active, participle, past, present], - [active, participle, past]
  1. (often with åt or upp) to snatch, to snap (take with a short, quick motion, literally or figuratively) Tags: often
    Sense id: en-snappa-sv-verb-aREaPhjz
  2. (usually with upp, figuratively) to (happen to) perceive (something useful or interesting), to pick up Tags: figuratively, usually
    Sense id: en-snappa-sv-verb-9mYlX-A5 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 44 56

Inflected forms

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          "english": "The thief snatched her wallet",
          "text": "Tjuven snappade åt sig plånboken",
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          "english": "I have picked up some rumors from people in the city (directly or for example by overhearing)",
          "text": "Jag har snappat upp en del rykten från folk i staden",
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          "english": "They managed to intercept the enemy's secret communication",
          "text": "De lyckades snappa upp fiendens hemliga kommunikation",
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        "to (happen to) perceive (something useful or interesting), to pick up"
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          "english": "I have picked up some rumors from people in the city (directly or for example by overhearing)",
          "text": "Jag har snappat upp en del rykten från folk i staden",
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          "english": "They managed to intercept the enemy's secret communication",
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        "to (happen to) perceive (something useful or interesting), to pick up"
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          "perceive",
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        "(usually with upp, figuratively) to (happen to) perceive (something useful or interesting), to pick up"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). 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.