kosta

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See also: Kosta and kostā

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse kosta, borrowed through Middle Low German from Latin constare, present infinitive of consto (I stand firm (on price)).

Verb

kosta (third person singular past indicative kostaði, third person plural past indicative kostaðu, supine kostað)

  1. to cost

Conjugation

Conjugation of kosta (group v-30)
infinitive kosta
supine kostað
participle (a6)1 kostandi kostaður
present past
first singular kosti kostaði
second singular kostar kostaði
third singular kostar kostaði
plural kosta kostaðu
imperative
singular kosta!
plural kostið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

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Finnish

Verb

kosta

  1. inflection of kostaa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese costas. Cognate with Kabuverdianu kósta.

Noun

kosta

  1. back (the backside of the body)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

kosta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kostaði, supine kostað)

  1. to cost
    Þessi hálsfesti kostaði mikla peninga!
    This necklace cost a lot of money!
  2. to finance, to bear the cost of
    Foreldrar mínir kostuðu námið mitt.
    My parents financed my education.

Conjugation

Noun

kosta

  1. indefinite genitive plural of kostur

Latvian

Participle

kosta

  1. inflection of kosts:
    1. genitive singular masculine
    2. nominative singular feminine

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

kosta

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • koste
  • køste (to cost, Telemark, eye dialect)
  • kåst (to cost, eye dialect spelling with apocope)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German , from Latin constare.

Pronunciation

Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)

  1. to cost (require payment of a price, cause something to be lost)

Etymology 2

From the noun kost.

Pronunciation

Verb

kosta (present tense kostar, past tense kosta, past participle kosta, passive infinitive kostast, present participle kostande, imperative kosta/kost)

  1. to sweep (clean with a broom)

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kustōną (to try, taste), from *kustuz, whence also Old Norse kostr.

Verb

kosta

  1. (transitive with genitive) to try
  2. (with infinitive) to exert oneself, strive
  3. (impersonal, transitive with accusative) to injure, hurt
    þat fall var svá mikit, at kostaði lærlegg hans
    the fall was so great, that it cost him his thigh-bone
  4. (ditransitive) to cost someone something
  5. to defray the expenses of

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: kosta
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kosta, koste, køste (to cost, Telemark, eye dialect), kåst (to cost, eye dialect spelling with apocope)

References

  • kosta”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kosta, from Middle Low German , from Latin constare.

Pronunciation

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Verb

kosta (present kostar, preterite kostade, supine kostat, imperative kosta)

  1. to cost

Conjugation

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish costa, from Galician costa or Catalan costa.

Pronunciation

Noun

kosta (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ)

  1. shore; coast
    Synonyms: baybay, baybay-dagat, baybayin, baybayin-dagat, pasigan, dalampasigan, hampasang-alon, pampang, kosto
  2. cost; expenses
    Synonyms: gastos, gugol, kosto, kostas

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