älska

== Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish ælska, from Old Norse ælska (Compare Old West Norse elska). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aliskōną (“to care for, cultivate, cherish”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɛlˌska/ Hyphenation (inflected forms): älsk‧ar === Verb === älska (present älskar, preterite älskade, supine älskat, imperative älska) (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) to love (romantically or otherwise – same tone as in English) (intransitive) to make love ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== kär kärlek (“love”) (see there for derivatives) ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “älska”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “älska”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) Fula Ordboken === Anagrams === läska