göra

== Swedish == === Etymology 1 === From Old Swedish gøra, gæra, giora, from Old Norse gera, gøra, gørva, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną. Compare with English yare and gear. The noun is a nominalization of the verb. Literally "doing." ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /²jøːra/, [²jœːɾa], (dialectal, verb only) [jœː] Rhymes: -²øːra ==== Noun ==== göra n work, task ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== See also ===== syssla ==== Verb ==== göra (present gör, preterite gjorde, supine gjort, imperative gör) to do (be occupied with an activity) Synonym: ha för sig to make, to produce, to create to cause, to make, to have an effect (auxiliary, pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not used with auxiliaries (auxiliary) to do so; a syntactic marker that takes the place of the verb when the main verb is topicalized. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Alternative forms ===== gjöra, giöra (obsolete) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== See also ===== syssla === Etymology 2 === From an older noun gorr, går (“dirt, mud, animal intestine content etc.”), with western Swedish vowel fronting /ɔ/ > /œː/ (sometimes represented in dialectal writing with a circumflex ⟨ô⟩). From Old Norse gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; feces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Related to English gore. Compare the intensifying prefix gör-. ==== Alternative forms ==== gôra (dialectal spelling) görja (noun only) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): (western Sweden) /²ɡœːra/ ==== Noun ==== göra c (dialectal, western Sweden) sludge, goo, gunk ===== Declension ===== ==== Verb ==== göra (present görar, preterite görade, supine görat, imperative göra) (dialectal, western Sweden) to rub snow in someone’s face ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== mula === References === “göra”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “göra”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “göra”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) Göra. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 21 October 2013. “Om 95 olika ord för att gnida in snö i ansiktet [About 95 different words for rubbing snow in someone’s face]”, in Språket i P1‎[1], Sveriges Radio, 10 January 2006, retrieved 23 October 2019