spring

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SPRING springen, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Old English#SPRING springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SPRING *springan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SPRING *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SPRING *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sperǵʰ- (“to hurry”).

Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#SPRING. Some newer senses derived from the noun.

Verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)Category:English lemmas#SPRINGCategory:English verbs#SPRINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING) To move or burst forth.
    1. To appear.
    2. To grow, to sprout.
      1. (UK dialectal) To mature.
    3. (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
      Synonyms: arise, form, take shape
    4. (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
    5. (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
      Synonyms: bound, jump, leap
      Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
    6. (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
      • 2008, George McCandless, The ABCs of RBCs, Harvard University Press, page 7:
        From this basis, a first-order difference equation for the evolution of capital per worker is found, and the time path of the economy springs from this equation.
        Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    7. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.
  2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING) To cause to spring (all senses).
    1. (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
  3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING) To leap over.
  4. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING, of horses) To breed with, to impregnate.
  5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING) To wet, to moisten.
  6. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
  7. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING, militaryCategory:en:Military#SPRING) To go off.
  8. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRINGCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SPRING, usually perfective) To crack.
    • 1582 August 2, Richard Madox, diary:
      The Edward sprang hir foremast.
  9. To come upon and flush out.
    • 1921, Field and Stream, page 832:
      For generations of men the springer spaniel has been looked upon as the dog for springing pheasants in covert and finding and retrieving dead birds or winged runners when ordered to do so. The properly broken dog will not chase, but drop to wing and shot.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    • 1940, Allen A. Day, “Dachsunds for Woodchucks”, in Dwight Williams Huntington, editor, The Game Breeder and Sportsman, page 94:
      […] by the beginning of this century a still smaller breed, with a weight of 4 of 5 pounds and a chest measurement of around 12 inches, had come into being for springing rabbits. Such, then, is a rough, quick ancestral picture of our modern Dachshund, and […]
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    • 2003 August 1, Dennis Walrod, Grouse Hunter's Guide: Solid Facts, Insights, and Observations on How to Hunt Ruffled Grouse, Stackpole Books, →ISBN:
      I winter, ruffed grouse sometimes roost at night on the ground under the insulating snow. Even during the midday hours, I have often flushed grouse out from under the snow-bowed branches of "buck-brush," the type of environment where a hunter would more likely expect to spring a rabbit or two.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
  10. (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#SPRING, slangCategory:English slang#SPRING) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
  11. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING) To begin.
  12. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING, slangCategory:English slang#SPRING) To put bad money into circulation.
  13. To tell, to share.
    Sorry to spring it on you like this but I've been offered another job.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
  14. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, slangCategory:English slang#SPRING, USCategory:American English#SPRING) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
    Synonyms: free, let out, release, spring loose, jailbreak
    His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
  15. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING, slangCategory:English slang#SPRING, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#SPRING) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
  16. To secure a person's release from custody; to free or bail out of jail.
  17. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, architectureCategory:en:Architecture#SPRING, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
    They sprung an arch over the lintel.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
  18. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING, architectureCategory:en:Architecture#SPRING, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
    The arches spring from the front posts.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
  19. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SPRING) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
  20. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
  21. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING, slangCategory:English slang#SPRING) To raise an offered price.
  22. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, USCategory:American English#SPRING, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#SPRING) Alternative form of sprain.
  23. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, USCategory:American English#SPRING, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#SPRING) Alternative form of strain.
  24. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING) To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
  25. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#SPRING) To equip with springs, especially (of vehiclesCategory:en:Vehicles#SPRING) to equip with a suspension.
  26. (figurative, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#SPRING, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING) to inspire, to motivate.
  27. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRINGCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
    A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
  28. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING, UKCategory:British English#SPRING, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#SPRING, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
  29. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SPRING, of rattles, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#SPRING) To sound, to play.
    • 1850, Samuel Prout Newcombe, Pleasant pages, page 197:
      I do not know how John and his mistress would have settled the fate of the thief, but just at this moment a policeman entered — for the cook had sprung the rattle, and had been screaming "Murder" and "Thieves."
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
  30. (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
Usage notes
  • The past-tense forms sprang and sprung are both well attested historically. In modern usage, sprang is comparatively formal (and more often considered correct), sprung comparatively informal. The past participle, however, is overwhelmingly sprung; sprang as a past participle is attested, but is no longer in standard use.
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Etymology 2

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SPRING spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Old English#SPRING spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SPRING *spring, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SPRING *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Old English#SPRING spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SPRING *sprungi, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SPRINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SPRING *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lenten, lente, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

Noun

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Spring (season) in Germany
A coil spring (mechanical device)

spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs)Category:English lemmas#SPRINGCategory:English nouns#SPRINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#SPRINGCategory:English countable nouns#SPRINGCategory:English countable nouns#SPRINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
  3. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#SPRING) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
    Synonym: springtime
    Coordinate terms: summer, autumn or fall, winter
    Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
    Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
    You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.
    Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
    1. (astronomyCategory:en:Astronomy#SPRING) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
      Chinese New Year always occurs in January or February but is called the "Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
      Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
    2. (meteorologyCategory:en:Meteorology#SPRING) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
      I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
      Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
      The spring issue will be out next week.
      Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
  4. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#SPRING, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
    1. (figurative, politicsCategory:en:Politics#SPRING) a period of political liberalization and democratization
  5. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING, fashionCategory:en:Fashion#SPRING) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
  6. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING) Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
    2. (geologyCategory:en:Geology#SPRING) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
      Synonyms: fount, source
      This beer was brewed with pure spring water.
      Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
    3. (oceanographyCategory:en:Oceanography#SPRING, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING) The rising of the sea at high tide.
    4. (oceanographyCategory:en:Oceanography#SPRING) Ellipsis of spring tideCategory:English ellipses#SPRING, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
      Antonym: neap tide
    6. An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
      We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.
      Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
    7. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SPRING) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
    8. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SPRING) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
      You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.Category:English terms with usage examples#SPRING
    9. (figurative) A race, a lineage.
    10. (figurative) A youth.
    11. A shoot, a young tree.
    12. A grove of trees; a forest.
  7. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING, slangCategory:English slang#SPRING) An erection of the penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)Category:Requests for example sentences in English#SPRING
  8. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SPRING, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING) A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#SPRING) a plank or seam.
  9. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#SPRING) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
    1. Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
      Synonyms: bounce, bounciness, elasticity, resilience, springiness
    2. Elastic energy, power, or force.
  10. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
    Synonyms: impetus, impulse
  11. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#SPRING) Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
    1. A cause, a motive, etc.
    2. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SPRING, musicCategory:en:Music#SPRING) A lively piece of music.
Usage notes

Note that season names are not capitalized in modern English except where any noun would be capitalized, e.g. at the beginning of a sentence or as part of a name (Old Man Winter, the Winter War, Summer Glau). This is in contrast to the days of the week and months of the year, which are always capitalized (Thursday or September).

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Verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past and past participle springed)Category:English lemmas#SPRINGCategory:English verbs#SPRINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SPRING) To spend the springtime somewhere.
    • 1835 May, “Northern Germany. A Sketch.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXV, page 507:
      True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    • 1912, William C[yrus] Sprague, Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance, page 2:
      If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could […]
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    • 1937, Mortimer Jones, “Lines of No Importance”, in The Alphi Phi Quarterly, page 29:
      They wintered in a warm place
      And summered in a cold,
      But where they springed and autumned
      I never have been told.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    • 1950, Chambers’s Journal, page 269:
      She springed in London, summered in Stockholm, autumned at Vichy, and wintered at Monte Carlo.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    • 2006, Tim Pratt, “The Third-Quarter King”, in Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G Byrne, editors, Eidolon I, →ISBN, page 2:
      In recent years his friend the fourth-quarter king summered, autumned, and springed in nearby Southern California, which was how they stayed so easily in touch.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
    • 2010, Larry Stettner, Bill Morrison, Cooking for the Common Good: The Birth of a Natural Foods Soup Kitchen, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 84:
      Larry and Bill had planned to hold a white-linen “fancy” fund-raiser dinner in late June or early July, which would bring out the moneyed crowd who “summered” on the Island. If you summer or winter somewhere you are affluent, Larry knew. (Funny, though, he had never heard of anyone who “autumned” in Vermont or who was “springing” in Colorado.)
      Category:English terms with quotations#SPRING
Translations

See also

Seasons in English · seasons (layout · text) · category
spring summer autumn, fall winter
Category:en:Seasons

References

Category:English strong verbs#SPRINGCategory:English clippings#SPRINGCategory:English irregular verbs#SPRING Category:en:Calendar#SPRINGCategory:en:Cattle#SPRINGCategory:en:Gaits#SPRINGCategory:en:Landforms#SPRINGCategory:en:Masonry#SPRINGCategory:en:Musical instruments#SPRINGCategory:en:Tides#SPRINGCategory:en:Water#SPRING

Afrikaans

Etymology

From DutchCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch#SPRINGCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch#SPRING springen.

Pronunciation

Verb

spring (present spring, present participle springende, past participle gespring)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Afrikaans verbs#SPRINGCategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. to leap, jump

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

Verbal noun to springe.

Noun

spring n (singular definite springet, plural indefinite spring)Category:Danish lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Danish nouns#SPRINGCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Danish neuter nouns#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. (athleticsCategory:da:Athletics#SPRING, gymnasticsCategory:da:Gymnastics#SPRING) spring, jump, vault, leap

Declension

Declension of spring
neuter
gender		 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative spring springet spring springene
genitive springs springets springs springenes

Verb

springCategory:Danish non-lemma forms#SPRINGCategory:Danish verb forms#SPRINGCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. imperative of springe

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

springCategory:Dutch non-lemma forms#SPRINGCategory:Dutch verb forms#SPRINGCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. inflection of springen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

springCategory:German non-lemma forms#SPRINGCategory:German verb forms#SPRINGCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. singular imperative of springen
  2. (colloquialCategory:German colloquialisms#SPRING) first-person singular present of springen

Icelandic

Verb

springCategory:Icelandic non-lemma forms#SPRINGCategory:Icelandic verb forms#SPRINGCategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. inflection of springa:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

springCategory:Middle English lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Middle English nouns#SPRINGCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. alternative form of spryng

Etymology 2

Verb

springCategory:Middle English lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Middle English verbs#SPRINGCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. alternative form of spryngen

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-GermanicCategory:North Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SPRINGCategory:North Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SPRING *springaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

springCategory:North Frisian lemmas#SPRINGCategory:North Frisian verbs#SPRINGCategory:North Frisian entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. (Föhr-AmrumCategory:Föhr-Amrum North Frisian#SPRING, SyltCategory:Sylt North Frisian#SPRING) to jump, leap

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

springCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#SPRINGCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#SPRINGCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. imperative of springe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

springCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#SPRINGCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms#SPRINGCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. present of springa

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West GermanicCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SPRINGCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SPRING *spring, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SPRINGCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SPRING *springaz

Pronunciation

Noun

spring mCategory:Old English lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Old English nouns#SPRINGCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Old English masculine nouns#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. a spring (source of water)
  2. an ulcer, sore, pustule

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

Descendants

Category:ang:Pathology#SPRINGCategory:ang:Water#SPRING

Scots

Pronunciation

Noun

spring (plural springs)Category:Scots lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Scots nouns#SPRINGCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. spring, springtime
  2. growth of vegetation in springtime

Verb

tae spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springin, simple past sprang, past participle sprung)Category:Scots lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Scots verbs#SPRINGCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. to spring
  2. to leap over, cross at a bound
  3. to put forth, send up or out
  4. to burst, split, break apart, break into
  5. to dance a reel
Category:sco:Seasons#SPRINGCategory:sco:Time#SPRING

Swedish

Noun

spring nCategory:Swedish lemmas#SPRINGCategory:Swedish nouns#SPRINGCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Swedish neuter nouns#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. a running (back and forth)
    • 1918, Goss-skolan i Plumfield, the Swedish translation of Louisa M. Alcott, Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)
      Eftermiddagen tillbragtes med att ordna sakerna, och när springet och släpet och hamrandet var förbi, inbjödos damerna att beskåda anstalten.
      The afternoon was spent in arranging things, and when the running and lugging and hammering was over, the ladies were invited to behold the institution.
      Category:Swedish terms with quotations#SPRING
    Barnen hade spring i benen
    The children had lots of energy ("running in the legs")
    Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#SPRING

Declension

Verb

springCategory:Swedish non-lemma forms#SPRINGCategory:Swedish verb forms#SPRINGCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SPRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SPRINGCategory:Pages with 13 entries#SPRING

  1. imperative of springa

References

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