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veita

veita

See also: veîta

Icelandic

Verb

veita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative veitti, supine veitt)

  1. (ditransitive, governs the dative and accusaive) to give somebody something, to grant, to offer
    Hún veitti mér verðlaun.
    She gave me an award.
  2. (transitive, governs the dative) to pipe water
  3. (impersonal) used in set phrases

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • veita eftirför (to follow somebody)
  • veita hjálp (to help somebody)
  • veita viðnám (to resist)
  • veita ekki af (to have need for)
  • munu ekki veita af (to have real use for)
  • veitast að (to attack somebody)
  • veitast eitthvað auðvelt (to find something easy)