feja

== Latvian == === Noun === feja f (4th declension) fairy ==== Declension ==== == Swedish == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Low German clean and Borrowed from German fegen (“sweep, polish”). First attested in 1639. ==== Verb ==== feja (present fejar, preterite fejade, supine fejat, imperative feja) to sweep, scrub, etc., and make nice and clean (a house or room or the like) to polish (a metal object) (of a stag) to burnish (remove velvet from antlers) ===== Conjugation ===== ===== See also ===== skorstensfejare === Etymology 2 === Likely borrowed from English face. ==== Noun ==== feja c (slang) a face han fick snöbollen i fejan ― he got the snowball in his face (slang, in the definite "fejan") Facebook det finns en bild av det på fejan ― there's a picture of it on Facebook ===== Declension ===== ===== Alternative forms ===== fejja === References === “feja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “feja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) Slangopedia