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snacka
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See also: snäcka
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Pronunciation
Verb
snacka
- third-person singular past historic of snacker
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German snacken (“to speak, talk”). Compare Danish snakke, Norwegian Bokmål snakke and Norwegian Nynorsk snakka.
Pronunciation
Verb
snacka (present snackar, preterite snackade, supine snackat, imperative snacka)
- (colloquial) to talk
- Synonyms: (everyday tone) prata, (somewhat formal) tala
- Har du snackat med Nisse än?
- Have you talked to Nisse yet?
- sitta och snacka över några öl
- sit and talk over a few beers
- Vad snackar du om?
- What are you talking about? [The colloquial tone of snacka makes "What are you talking about??" a natural interpretation here, as in what you just said was ridiculous or the like]
- Vad fan snackar du om?
- What the hell are you talking about?
- Jag ska snacka med honom
- I will have a word with him [Likely to be the tone, like above] / I will speak to him [from sounding more serious than "I will talk to him," though speak is a poor match for tone in other cases]
- snacka skit om någon
- talk shit about someone
- (colloquial) to boast emptily
- Du bara snackar!
- You're all talk!
- (literally, “You're just talking!”)
- (colloquial) to reveal secrets (especially during an interrogation)
- Jag hoppas att han inte snackar
- I hope he doesn't talk
Usage notes
Conjugation
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
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