varda

See also: vardà, vārda, vārdā, vårda, and varða

Estonian

Noun

varda

1. genitive singular of varras

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• varde

Etymology

Related to varde m.

Verb

varda (present tense vardar, past tense varda, past participle varda, passive infinitive vardast, present participle vardande, imperative varda/vard)

1. to put up cairns in the landscape

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish varþa, værþa, from Runic Swedish verða, from Old Norse verða, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wert-. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk verta (“to become”), obsolete Norwegian Bokmål vorde (“to become”), German werden (“to become”), Dutch worden (“to become”) and English worth (“to become”, obsolete verb).

Verb

varda (present varder, preterite vart, past participle vorden)

1. (archaic, still used in the past tense) to become
   • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Genesis (Första Mosebok), 3:19

     Tu skalt äta tit brödh j tins anletes swett / til tess tu warder åter til iord igen / ther tu aff taghen äst / ty tu äst iord / och til iord skal tu warda.

     (pre-1906 spelling) Du skalt äta ditt bröd i dins anletes svett, till dess du varder åter till jord igen, der du af tagen äst; ty du äst jord, och till jord skall du varda.

     In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto [become part of] the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return [become.]

   • 1917 translation, the Bible, Genesis (Första Mosebok), 1:3

     Och Gud sade: »Varde ljus»; och det vart ljus.

     And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

   Vänden eder till mig, så varden I frälsta

   Look unto me, and be ye saved

   Jag vart tagen av polisen. (not archaic)

   I got caught by the police.

Usage notes

• The two adverbs var (“where”) and vart (“whereto, whither”) are often mixed up, and confused with the spoken vart short form of varit, supine of vara. The sentence var har du varit? (where have you been?) might become vart har du vart?. This leads some people to recommend against all use of vart, which they in turn mix up with the past tense of varda.
• In many dialects, the past tense of varda often replaces the past tense of bli.
• Ostrobothnian dialects of Finland-Swedish do not have bli at all, and retain the older varda as the traditional auxiliary. (Nykarleby dialect) infinitive: var; present: var/va; imperfect: vart; supine: vari; imperative: var/varen
• Not listed in the conjugation table are the 2nd person plural form varden, and the dialectal vurte or vurti.
• This verb lacks a supine form, so the perfect and pluperfect tenses are formed using vara (instead of ha) as the auxiliary verb with the past participle.

Han är vorden mycket sjuk.

He has become very ill.

Conjugation

Conjugation of varda (irregular)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	varda		—
Supine	vordit, vurtit, vurti		—
Imperative	—		—
Imper. plural1	varden		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	varder	vart	—	—
Ind. plural1	varda	vordo	—	—
Subjunctive2	varde	vorde	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	vardande
Past participle	vorden
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• vulen

Further reading

• varda in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• vadar