blæða

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse blœða, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈplaiːða]
    Rhymes: -aiːða

Verb

blæða (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative blæddi, supine blætt)

  1. (impersonal) to cause to bleed [with dative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated as "bleed" with the dative object as the subject)
    Henni blæddi út.
    She bled to death.
    Mér blæðir.
    I am bleeding.
  2. (intransitive) to pay, to pay through the nose
    Synonym: borga
    Hann mátti blæða.
    He had to pay through the nose.
    Ég skal blæða á þig kaffi.
    I'll buy you some coffee.

Conjugation

blæða – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að blæða
supine sagnbót blætt
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 blæðandi
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég blæði blæddi blæði blæddi
þú blæðir blæddir blæðir blæddir
hann, hún, það blæðir blæddi blæði blæddi
plural við blæðum blæddum blæðum blæddum
þið blæðið blædduð blæðið blædduð
þeir, þær, þau blæða blæddu blæði blæddu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú blæð (þú), blæddu
plural þið blæðið (þið), blæðiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

  • blæða á einhvern (“to spend money on someone”)
  • blæða út (“to bleed to death”)
  • mér blæðir (“I'm bleeding”)

Derived terms

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