tappa andan
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Etymology
Verb
tappa andan (present tappar andan, preterite tappade andan, supine tappat andan, imperative tappa andan)
- to become breathless (e.g. due to getting punched in the stomach, laughing hard, or figuratively from seeing something that stirs strong emotions)
- Landskapet de såg när de kom ut ur grottan fick dom att tappa andan
- The landscape they saw when they emerged from the cave made them breathless
Conjugation
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | tappa andan | — | ||
| Supine | tappat andan | — | ||
| Imperative | tappa andan | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | tappen andan | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | tappar andan | tappade andan | — | — |
| Ind. plural1 | tappa andan | tappade andan | — | — |
| Subjunctive2 | tappe andan | tappade andan | — | — |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | — | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Conjugation of tappa (weak)
See also
- tappa hakan (“have one's jaw drop”)
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