växa

See also: vaxa

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse vaxa, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg-, cognate with wax (of the moon).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

växa (present växer, preterite växte, supine växt, vuxit, imperative väx)

  1. grow; increase in size
    kyrkan och kungens makt växte i betydelse
    the church and the power of the king grew in significance
  2. grow; sprout
    • 1891, Selma Lögerlöf, “23, Patron Julius [23, Squire Julius]”, in Gösta Berlings Saga [Gösta Berling's Saga] (fiction), Frithiof Hellbergs förlag, →ISBN, OCLC 606362161, page 276:
      Längs vägen vuxo prästkragar och sötblomster och gökärter.
      Along the way grew daisies and camomiles and bitter vetches.

Usage notes

  • Similar to English grew/growed, there are traces of a strong conjugation (växa, --, vuxit) besides the more common weak one (växa, växte, växt). The strong singular past tense (originally vox) is never seen, but there is an obsolete plural past tense vuxo and a subjunctive vuxe.

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