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kasta

kasta

See also: KASTA

Czech

Noun

kasta f

  1. caste

Derived terms

  • kastovní

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse kasta (Icelandic, Swedish kasta, Danish, Norwegian kaste and English cast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰasta/

Verb

kasta ‎(third person singular past indicative kastaði, third person plural past indicative kastað, supine kastað)

  1. to throw

Conjugation

Finnish

Verb

kasta

  1. Indicative present connegative form of kastaa.
  2. Second-person singular imperative present form of kastaa.
  3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of kastaa.

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kasta (Faroese, Swedish kasta, Danish, Norwegian kaste and English cast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰasta/
  • Rhymes: -asta

Verb

kasta ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kastaði, supine kastað)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, governs the dative) to throw, to fling, to hurl, to toss
    Kastaðu boltanum hingað!‎
    Toss the ball here!
    Að kasta sér í sjóinn.‎
    To hurl oneself into the ocean.
  2. (equestrian) to foal; to give birth, to bear offspring

Conjugation

kastast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að kastast
supine
(sagnbót) 		kastast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		kastandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég kastast við köstumst present
(nútíð) 		ég kastist við köstumst
þú kastast þið kastist þú kastist þið kastist
hann, hún, það kastast þeir, þær, þau kastast hann, hún, það kastist þeir, þær, þau kastist
past
(þátíð) 		ég kastaðist við köstuðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég kastaðist við köstuðumst
þú kastaðist þið köstuðust þú kastaðist þið köstuðust
hann, hún, það kastaðist þeir, þær, þau köstuðust hann, hún, það kastaðist þeir, þær, þau köstuðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		kastast (þú) kastist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
kastastu kastisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

  • kasta af sér vatni (to make water, to take a leak, to micturate)
  • kasta aftur (to reflect)
  • kasta á glæ
  • kasta eign sinni á einhvern (to claim something as one's own)
  • kasta einhverju fram (to throw out a remark)
  • kasta fram vísu (to ad lib a quatrain, to extemporize a quatrain)
  • kasta kveðju á einhvern (to greet someone briefly)
  • kasta mæðinni (to take a breather)
  • kasta perlum fyrir svín
  • kasta rýrð á eitthvað (to belittle something)
  • kasta upp (to vomit, to throw up)
  • kastaður

Related terms

See also

Synonyms

Noun

kasta

  1. indefinite genitive plural of köstur

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

kasta n

  1. definite plural of kast

Verb

kasta

  1. simple past of kaste
  2. past participle of kaste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse kasta.

Verb

kasta ‎(present tense kastar, past tense kasta, past participle kasta, passive infinitive kastast, present participle kastande, imperative kasta/kast)

  1. throw
    Kor langt kan du kasta denne?
    How far can you throw this one?

References

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną.

Verb

kasta

  1. to throw, cast

Conjugation

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Conjugation of kasta (weak)
present past
infinitive kasta —
participle kastandi, -e kastaþer
active voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk kastar kasti, -e — kastaþi, -e kastaþi, -e
þū kastar kasti, -e kasta kastaþi, -e kastaþi, -e
han kastar kasti, -e — kastaþi, -e kastaþi, -e
vīr kastum, -om kastum, -om kastum, -om kastaþum, -om kastaþum, -om
īr kastin kastin kastin kastaþin kastaþin
þēr kasta kastin — kastaþu, -o kastaþin
mediopassive voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk kastas kastis, -es — kastaþis, -es kastaþis, -es
þū kastas kastis, -es — kastaþis, -es kastaþis, -es
han kastas kastis, -es — kastaþis, -es kastaþis, -es
vīr kastums, -oms kastums, -oms — kastaþums, -oms kastaþums, -oms
īr kastins kastins — kastaþins kastaþins
þēr kastas kastins — kastaþus, -os kastaþins

Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.sta/

Noun

kasta f

  1. caste

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kȁsta f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ка̏ста)

  1. caste

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kasta, from Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną ‎(“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Faroese, Icelandic kasta, Danish, Norwegian kaste and English cast.

Pronunciation

Verb

kasta ‎(present kastar, preterite kastade, supine kastat, imperative kasta)

  1. to throw; make an object fly through the air
  2. to throw away, discard, dispose of
  3. (card games) to discard, slough

Conjugation

Related terms

Vilamovian

kasta

Etymology

From Old High German kasto.

Noun

kasta m (diminutive kastła)

  1. chest (strong box)

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