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ta

Pronunciation: /tɑː/

“ta” is a Swedish word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. take; to grab and move to oneself
  2. to bring (along); to carry
  3. steal
  4. take; catch
  5. take (control over)
  6. take; make use of
  7. take, pick; to choose
  8. take; to manage; to be able to handle
  9. take; to endure
  10. take; to ingest a medicine or a drug
  11. take (a course); to enroll
  12. take (a test)
  13. take, capture; remove one of the opponent's pieces (e.g. in chess)
  14. take; beat; be victorious
  15. to start burning; to go from embers into open flames
  16. (about a plant) take; thrive, persist
  17. take; to have sex with forcefully
  18. accept (as means of payment)
  19. take, to last (an amount of time)
  20. to do, to get down to doing (something requiring some degree of decisiveness)

Etymology

Apocopic form of taga, from Old Swedish taka, from Old Norse taka, from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną. Cognate with English take.

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