rattsurfa
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Swedish
Etymology
ratt (“steering wheel”) + surfa (“to surf the internet”). Coined in analogy with rattfylleri (“drunk driving”) and popularized by a public information campaign from the Swedish Transport Agency in 2014.
Verb
rattsurfa (present rattsurfar, preterite rattsurfade, supine rattsurfat, imperative rattsurfa)
- (neologism, intransitive) to use a mobile phone (generally a smartphone) while driving
Conjugation
Conjugation of rattsurfa (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | rattsurfa | rattsurfas | ||
| Supine | rattsurfat | rattsurfats | ||
| Imperative | rattsurfa | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | rattsurfen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | rattsurfar | rattsurfade | rattsurfas | rattsurfades |
| Ind. plural1 | rattsurfa | rattsurfade | rattsurfas | rattsurfades |
| Subjunctive2 | rattsurfe | rattsurfade | rattsurfes | rattsurfades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | rattsurfande | |||
| Past participle | — | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Derived terms
Further reading
rattsurfning on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia sv
