trappa

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Swedish trappa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɹaʰpːa]

Noun

trappa f (genitive singular trappu, plural trappur)

  1. stairs, stairway

Declension

Declension of trappa
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative trappa trappan trappur trappurnar
accusative trappu trappuna trappur trappurnar
dative trappu trappuni trappum trappunum
genitive trappu trappunnar trappa trappanna

French

Pronunciation

Verb

trappa

  1. third-person singular past historic of trapper

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Germanic. Compare Old English træppe. Found in the Lex Salica.[1]

Noun

trappa f (genitive trappae); first declension (Late Latin)

  1. trap
  2. trapdoor

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trappa trappae
Genitive trappae trappārum
Dative trappae trappīs
Accusative trappam trappās
Ablative trappā trappīs
Vocative trappa trappae

Derived terms

  • trappula

Descendants

  • Catalan: trapa
  • Franco-Provençal: trapa
  • Old French: trape, trappe
  • Occitan: trapa

References

  1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “trappa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1040

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

trappa m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of trapp

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trappa f

  1. definite singular of trapp

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish trapa, trappa, borrowed from Middle Low German trappe, from Old Saxon *trappa, from Proto-West Germanic *trappā. Similar to Norwegian trapp, Danish trappe and Faroese trappa.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

trappa c

  1. staircase, stairway, stairs, flight of stairs
    Hon gick upp/ner för trappan
    She walked up/down the stairs
    Trappan har tjugo trappsteg
    The staircase has twenty steps

Declension

Declension of trappa 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative trappa trappan trappor trapporna
Genitive trappas trappans trappors trappornas

Descendants

See also

Verb

trappa (present trappar, preterite trappade, supine trappat, imperative trappa)

  1. See trappa av, trappa upp and trappa ner.

Conjugation

Derived terms

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