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Icelandic
Noun
slippa
- indefinite genitive plural of slippur
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish slippa, from Old Norse sleppa, from or related to Proto-Germanic *slīpaną (“to slide”).
Pronunciation
Verb
slippa (present slipper, preterite slapp, supine sluppit, imperative slipp)
- to not have to experience (something unpleasant), to not have to deal with
Jag hoppas vi slipper regn imorgon- I hope we won't get rain tomorrow (I hope we won't have to experience rain tomorrow)
- to not have to do, to get away (with not doing)
Vi slapp städa köket innan vi åkte- We did not have to clean the kitchen before we left (they let us leave without cleaning / did not force us to clean the kitchen before we left, we got away without cleaning the kitchen before we left – avoided the negative experience of cleaning the kitchen)
Ni slipper städa. Vi fixar det.- You don't have to clean up. We'll take care of it.
1986, Magnus Uggla (lyrics and music), “Fula gubbar [Dirty old men]”:Han har blonderat sitt gråa hår, och lyft bort fett ifrån höft och lår, för att slippa hålla andan på Norderstrand, i jakten på en konfirmand.- He has dyed his gray hair blond, and removed fat from his hips and thighs , so as to not have to (deal with the negative experience of having to) hold his breath on Norderstrand , in the hunt for a confirmand .
- (slang, by irony) to be unable
Med en T-Ford slipper man åka fortare än 70 km/h- With a Model T Ford, you can't go ("won't have to deal with going") faster than 70 km/h
- (often with a particle, especially igenom, ut, or ur) to slip (move quickly/imperceptibly, or in a gliding manner, sometimes figuratively)
Lejonet hade sluppit ur sin bur- The lion had slipped out of its cage
Brottslingarna slapp igenom polisens nät- The criminals slipped through the police net
Det bara slapp ur mig- It just slipped out of me
Glaset slapp ur hans hand- The glass slipped from his hand
Usage notes
- Can be thought of as "slip (from)" in the sense of "get away from" in (sense 1), which is likely how the sense developed, though the native intuition is just "not have to experience / deal with," non-figuratively.
- Used as an auxiliary verb (hjälpverb) when used together with other verbs, which then appear in the infinitive ("to X" form). "Vi slapp att städa ..." – modifying the example above by adding an infinitive marker att (“to”) to städa (“clean”) – is also grammatical, though now uncommon.
Conjugation
Conjugation of slippa (class 3 strong)
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