styla
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Swedish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
styla (present stylar, preterite stylade, supine stylat, imperative styla)
- to style (give a certain (appealing (and fashionable)) appearance)
- styla håret
- style one's hair
- homestyling
- home staging (making a property look nice in preparation for selling it – pseudo-anglicism)
- (figuratively) to style (change (to make more attractive))
- styla om politiken för att tilltala fler
- restyle one's political policies to appeal to more people
- (colloquial) to do something (more or less superfluous) to show off
- Han körde i diket när han sladdade med bilen för att styla för kompisarna
- He drove into the ditch when he drifted his car to show off to ("style for") his friends
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of styla (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | styla | stylas | ||
| Supine | stylat | stylats | ||
| Imperative | styla | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | stylen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | stylar | stylade | stylas | stylades |
| Ind. plural1 | styla | stylade | stylas | stylades |
| Subjunctive2 | style | stylade | styles | stylades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | stylande | |||
| Past participle | stylad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||