virke

virke (imperative virk, infinitive at virke, present tense virker, past tense virkede, perfect tense har virket)

1. function properly

   Lommelygten virker ikke!

   The torch does not work!

2. to work, to labor

   Synonym: arbejde

3. exert influence upon
   • 1991, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Latin og nationalsprog i Norden efter reformationen: Konference 1.-5. august 1987, Biskops-Arnö, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 179:

     Han vil altså ikke tale om: sprog, der virker på mennesker ved konvention, f.eks. universalsprog; eller overhovedet om sprog som tegn, der meddeler et indhold.

     Thus, he does not want to talk about: languages, doing work on humans by convention, e.g. universal languagez; or about languages as signs conveying content at all.

4. seem, appear

   Du virker lidt sur.

   You seem a little angry.

virke

1. (uncountable) work, labor

virkkaa (“to say, utter”) (dialectal) +‎ -e. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1880.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋirkeˣ/, [ˈʋirk̟e̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -irke
• Syllabification^(key): vir‧ke

virke

1. (grammar) sentence

• virke means only the whole sentence or set of clauses ending with a period, exclamation point or question mark. Thus, "Minä menen kouluun, vaikka en jaksaisi." is a virke, while "Minä menen kouluun" is a lause (or more exactly a päälause) and vaikka en jaksaisi is a lause (or more exactly a sivulause).

• “virke”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

From Old Norse virki (noun), and German wirken (verb).

virke n (definite singular virket, uncountable)

1. (uncountable) business; work
2. of or related to woodwork

• samvirke

virke (imperative virk, present tense virker, passive virkes, simple past and past participle virka or virket, present participle virkende)

1. to work
2. to affect
3. to seem

   det virker som en evighet ― it seems like an eternity

• “virke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse virki, influenced by Norwegian Bokmål virke. Doublet of vyrke n.

virke n (definite singular virket, uncountable)

1. business; work
2. of or related to woodwork; wood, timber

• (wood): vyrke

• samvirke

• verke, verka

• “virke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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virke n

1. wood cut into boards or planks, to be used in carpentry or other construction work; lumber, timber

• viker