ta.
take; to grab and move to oneself
Meaning & usage
take; to grab and move to oneself
Han hade tagit kakan.
to bring (along); to carry
Ta med kakan.
steal
Inbrottstjuven hade tagit allting.
take; catch
Inbrottstjuven togs genast.
take (control over)
Kan du ta över?
take; make use of
Karl tar cykeln till jobbet.
take, pick; to choose
Vilket alternativ tar du?
take; to manage; to be able to handle
take; to endure
take; to ingest a medicine or a drug
Patienten hade tagit allting.
take (a course); to enroll
take (a test)
Han hade tagit blodprovet.
take, capture; remove one of the opponent's pieces (e.g. in chess)
take; beat; be victorious
Idrottaren tog medalj.
to start burning; to go from embers into open flames
Tar elden sig?
(about a plant) take; thrive, persist
take; to have sex with forcefully
Han tog henne bakifrån.
accept (as means of payment)
Tar ni kort här?
take, to last (an amount of time)
Resan tar en timme.
to do, to get down to doing (something requiring some degree of decisiveness)
Det ser ut som en svinstia här inne. Jag borde ta och städa.
Where this word comes from
Apocopic form of taga, from Old Swedish taka, from Old Norse taka, from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną. Cognate with English take.
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