sprekke

From sprakk, preterite of springe.

sprekke (imperative sprekk, present tense sprekker, passive sprekkes, simple past sprakk, past participle sprukket, present participle sprekkende)

1. to break, shatter, crack, burst etc.
2. to separate, as in milk.
3. to confess under duress or pressure
4. to suddenly run out of power

• sprekk (noun)

• “sprekke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /²sprɛkːə/

From sprakk, originally preterite of springe. Compare Swedish spricka.

• sprekka

sprekke (present tense sprekk, past tense sprakk, past participle sprokke, passive infinitive sprekkast, present participle sprekkande, imperative sprekk)

1. (intransitive) to break, shatter, crack, burst
   • 1862, Aasta Hansteen, (translated from P.C. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe), "Spurnaden"

     "Fær eg steikja skjori mi?" spurde han. "Eg er rædd ho sprekk," svarade kungsdotteri.

     "May I fry my magpie?" he asked. "I am afraid it will burst," the princess replied.

2. (intransitive) to separate, as in milk.
3. (intransitive) to confess under duress or pressure
4. (intransitive) to suddenly run out of power

• sprekkje (transitive verb)
• sprekk (noun)

sprekke (present tense sprekker, past tense sprekte, past participle sprekt, present participle sprekkande, imperative sprekk)

1. Alternative form of sprekkje

• “sprekke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Frisian spreka, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprɛkə/

sprekke

1. to speak

• Variant past-tense 1st: spruts
• Variant past-tense 2nd: sprutst
• Variant past-tense 3rd: spruts
• Variant past plural: sprutsen

• sprekker

• “sprekke”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011