fasta

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See also: fásta and fästa

Asturian

Alternative forms

  • ata
  • ta (Central Asturias)
  • hasta
  • ḥasta (Eastern Asturias)
  • ḥata (Cabrales)
  • hástasa (used only with some adverbs)
    HástasagoraUntil now
    Hástasa equíUp to here
    HástasarribaUp to the top
  • ḥástasa (used only with some adverbs, Eastern Asturias)

Preposition

fasta

  1. until

Gothic

Romanization

fasta

  1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fasta, from Proto-Germanic *fastāną.

Verb

fasta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fastaði, supine fastað)

  1. to fast
Conjugation
fasta – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur fasta
supine sagnbót fastað
present participle
fastandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég fasta fastaði fasti fastaði
þú fastar fastaðir fastir fastaðir
hann, hún, það fastar fastaði fasti fastaði
plural við föstum föstuðum föstum föstuðum
þið fastið föstuðuð fastið föstuðuð
þeir, þær, þau fasta föstuðu fasti föstuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú fasta (þú), fastaðu
plural þið fastið (þið), fastiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fasta.

Noun

fasta f (genitive singular föstu, nominative plural föstur)

  1. fast (abstinence from food)
Declension
Declension of fasta (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fasta fastan föstur fösturnar
accusative föstu föstuna föstur fösturnar
dative föstu föstunni föstum föstunum
genitive föstu föstunnar fastna, fasta fastnanna, fastanna
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Latin

Adjective

fāsta

  1. inflection of fāstus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

fāstā

  1. ablative feminine singular of fāstus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

fasta m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of faste

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

fasta

  1. inflection of faste:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fasta f

  1. definite singular of faste

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fasta, from Proto-Germanic *fastāną.

Verb

fasta

  1. to fast, to abstain from food

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Swedish: fasta

Spanish

Preposition

fasta

  1. obsolete form of hasta

Adjective

fasta f

  1. feminine singular of fasto

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fasta, from Old Norse fasta, from Proto-Germanic *fastāną.

Adjective

fasta

  1. inflection of fast:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Noun

fasta c

  1. a period of fasting, lent

Declension

Verb

fasta (present fastar, preterite fastade, supine fastat, imperative fasta)

  1. to fast

Conjugation

Conjugation of fasta (weak)
active passive
infinitive fasta
supine fastat
imperative fasta
imper. plural1 fasten
present past present past
indicative fastar fastade
ind. plural1 fasta fastade
subjunctive2 faste fastade
present participle fastande
past participle

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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