nosa

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See also: nôșa, носа, and ноша

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nausia.

Pronunciation

Noun

nosa f (plural noses)

  1. nuisance, encumbrance

Fala

Alternative forms

  • nossa (Frades Gaspar's form)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nossa, from Latin nostram.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnosa/
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: no‧sa

Determiner

nosa f sg

  1. feminine singular of nosu (“our”)
    • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme II, Chapter 2: Recunquista:
      Non poemos analizar con pormenoris estis siglos, pero tampoco se debi toleral que, sin fundamentus, se poña en duda algo que a Historia documentá nos lega sobre nossa terra.
      We can’t thoroughly analyse these centuries, but one mustn’t tolerate that, unfoundedly, something documented history tells us about our land be questioned.

Pronoun

nosa f sg

  1. feminine singular of nosu (“ours”)

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns
Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Possessor First person Singular mei miña meis miñas
Plural nosu nosa nosus nosas
Second person Singular tei túa, tu1 teis túas, tus1
Plural vosu vosa vosus vosas
Third person sei súa, su1 seis súas, sus1
  1. Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nossa, from Vulgar Latin *nossa, from Latin nostra(m), feminine of noster (“ours”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nosa f (masculine singular noso, masculine plural nosos, feminine singular nosa, feminine plural nosas)

  1. (possessive) ours

See also

Further reading

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Noun

nosa

  1. genitive singular of nos
  2. nominative dual of nos
  3. accusative dual of nos

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

nosa m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of nos

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nosa f

  1. definite singular of nos

Old English

Noun

nosa

  1. inflection of nosu:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.sa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔsa
  • Syllabification: no‧sa

Noun

nosa m inan

  1. genitive singular of nos

Swedish

Etymology

nos +‎ -a

Verb

nosa (present nosar, preterite nosade, supine nosat, imperative nosa)

  1. to sniff (especially of an animal)
    Hunden nosade på honom
    The dog sniffed him
  2. (figuratively) to snoop (look at (or investigate) things (which may be out of one's business))
    nosa i andras affärer
    go snooping in other people's business
  3. to briefly try to do something to see if one likes it

Conjugation

Conjugation of nosa (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive nosa nosas
Supine nosat nosats
Imperative nosa —
Imper. plural1 nosen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative nosar nosade nosas nosades
Ind. plural1 nosa nosade nosas nosades
Subjunctive2 nose nosade noses nosades
Participles
Present participle nosande
Past participle nosad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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