spara

From Old Norse spara, from Proto-Germanic *sparāną.

spara (third person singular past indicative spardi, third person plural past indicative spart, supine spart)

1. to spare
2. to save (money)

• sparikassi (savings bank)

From Old Norse spara, from Proto-Germanic *sparāną, from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to be productive; earn”). Cognate with Danish spare, English spare and German sparen.

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spara (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sparaði, supine sparað)

1. to spare
2. to save (money)

• sparibaukur (piggy bank)

• “spara” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

spara

1. inflection of sparare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• aspra, parsa, raspa, saprà

spara m

1. genitive singular of spars

From Old Norse spara, from Proto-Germanic *sparāną.

spara

1. to save, to store
2. to prevent, to deny
3. to spare (someone's life)

• Swedish: spara

From Old Swedish spara, from Old Norse spara, from Proto-Germanic *sparāną.

• IPA^(key): /spɑːra/

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spara (present sparar or spar, preterite sparade or sparde, supine sparat or spart, imperative spara or spar)

1. to save, to store for future use
2. (computing) to save; write to a disc
3. to save; prevent the waste of

The second set of inflections are mainly used in various dialects, but not so often in standard language (except for some fixed expressions, like den som spar han har).

• den som spar han har

• (save, store): spargris, sparbank, sparkonto, sparränta
• (computing): sparning

• spara in Svensk ordbok.

• aspar, raspa