rocka
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rocka
French
Verb
rocka
- third-person singular past historic of rocker
Swedish
Etymology 1
Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rūhwaz (“rough”), referring to the fish's texture. See also Middle Low German roche, ruche, Middle Dutch roche, rogghe, Danish rokke.
Noun
rocka c
- ray (marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail)
Declension
| Declension of rocka | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | rocka | rockan | rockor | rockorna |
| Genitive | rockas | rockans | rockors | rockornas |
Etymology 2
From Old Norse *rukka, rugga, from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną.
Verb
rocka (present rockar, preterite rockade, supine rockat, imperative rocka)
Conjugation
Conjugation of rocka (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | rocka | rockas | ||
| Supine | rockat | rockats | ||
| Imperative | rocka | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | rocken | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | rockar | rockade | rockas | rockades |
| Ind. plural1 | rocka | rockade | rockas | rockades |
| Subjunctive2 | rocke | rockade | rockes | rockades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | rockande | |||
| Past participle | rockad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Further reading
- “rocka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (in Swedish), 1937