slippa

== Icelandic == === Noun === slippa indefinite genitive plural of slippur == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish slippa, from Old Norse sleppa, from or related to Proto-Germanic *slīpaną (“to slide”). === Pronunciation === === Verb === slippa (present slipper, preterite slapp, supine sluppit, imperative slipp) to not have to experience (something unpleasant), to not have to deal with to not have to do, to get away (with not doing) (slang, by irony) to be unable (often with a particle, especially igenom, ut, or ur) to slip (move quickly/imperceptibly, or in a gliding manner, sometimes figuratively) ==== Usage notes ==== Can be thought of as "slip (from)" in the sense of "get away from" in (sense 1), which is likely how the sense developed, though the native intuition is just "not have to experience / deal with," non-figuratively. Used as an auxiliary verb (hjälpverb) when used together with other verbs, which then appear in the infinitive ("to X" form). "Vi slapp att städa ..." – modifying the example above by adding an infinitive marker att (“to”) to städa (“clean”) – is also grammatical, though now uncommon. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== undslippa uppsluppen ==== See also ==== slipp då === References === “slippa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “slippa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “slippa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)