toucha
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Standard English touch, as in "touching someone for money".
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtʌt͡ʃə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌtʃə
Noun
[edit]toucha (plural touchas)
- (Geordie, derogatory) A person who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.
- Yer a toucha, yee just somthin for nothin aall the time!
French
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[edit]Verb
[edit]toucha
- third-person singular past historic of toucher
- Elle me toucha la main, la baisa, et je tombai amoureux d’elle.
- She touched my hand, kissed it, and I fell in love with her.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of touche (“touch”, noun) + -a (“noun→verb suffix”). Ultimately borrowed from French touche. First attested in 1895[1].
Verb
[edit]toucha (present touchar, preterite touchade, supine touchat, imperative toucha)
- to graze (touch lightly on passing)
- Synonym: snudda
- 1901 September 23, “Pansarbåten Oden på grund [Ironclad Odin Aground]”, in Svenska Morgonbladet, page 4:
- Under pågående eskaderöfningar råkade natten mellan sistlidne torsdag och fredag pansarbåten Oden »toucha» ett grund i en hemlig militärled strax väster om Skarp-Runmarö.
- During squadron manoeuvres, on the night between Thursday and Friday last, the ironclad Odin grazed a shoal in a secret naval channel just west of Skarp-Runmarö.
- 2024 September 30, Stina Ahlinder, Patric Sellén, “Krock mellan persontåg och bil norr om Timrå – inga personskador [Collision between passenger train and car north of Timrå – no injuries]”, in SVT Nyheter:
- Det verkar som om tåget bara touchat i bilens fram- eller bakdel, säger SOS larmoperatör […]
- It seems as though the train only grazed the front or rear of the car, says SOS alarm operator […] .
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of toucha (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | toucha | touchas | ||
| Supine | touchat | touchats | ||
| Imperative | toucha | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | touchen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | touchar | touchade | touchas | touchades |
| Ind. plural1 | toucha | touchade | touchas | touchades |
| Subjunctive2 | touche | touchade | touches | touchades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | touchande | |||
| Past participle | touchad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
References
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