vakna

From Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaʰkna/
• Rhymes: -aʰkna

vakna (third person singular past indicative vaknaði, third person plural past indicative vaknaðu, supine vaknað)

1. to wake up

Conjugation of vakna (group v-30)
infinitive	vakna
supine	vaknað
participle (a6)1	vaknandi	vaknaður
	present	past
first singular	vakni	vaknaði
second singular	vaknar	vaknaði
third singular	vaknar	vaknaði
plural	vakna	vaknaðu
	imperative
singular	vakna!
plural	vaknið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

From Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvahkna/
  • Rhymes: -ahkna

vakna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative vaknaði, supine vaknað)

1. (intransitive) to wake up, to awaken

• vakna við
• vakna við vondan draum
• vaknaður

• rísa
• rumska
• vekja

• vakne

From Old Norse vakna. Akin to English waken.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɑknɑ/, /²ʋɑːknɑ/

vakna (present tense vaknar, past tense vakna, past participle vakna, passive infinitive vaknast, present participle vaknande, imperative vakna/vakn)

1. to wake up

• “vakna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

vakna

1. to wake up

• Swedish: vakna

• IPA^(key): /²vɑːkna/

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From Old Swedish vakna, from Old Norse vakna, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-.

vakna (present vaknar, preterite vaknade, supine vaknat, imperative vakna)

1. (intransitive) to wake up (become awake – compare väcka)

   Har du vaknat på fel sida i dag?

   Did you wake up on the wrong side today? [Are you in a bad mood for some reason? – idiomatic]

   Jag vaknade med ett ryck

   I woke up with a start

   Staden hade precis börjat vakna

   The city was just starting to wake up

• vacker
• vaka
• vaken
• väcka

vakna

1. inflection of vaken:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• vakna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vakna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vakna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• vakan, vanka