italki - "bráði af" - Meaning and infinitive, lexical form of the word? Hi what is the infinitive form of "br

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"bráði af" - Meaning and infinitive, lexical form of the word? Hi what is the infinitive form of "bráði af" in the following sentence: "Hann hóf staf sinn á loft og horfði inn í augu mín, svo eitt andartak bráði af mér." What is the meaning of bráði af? :/ I want to look up 'bráði af' in the dictionary, but I don't know its lexical form... :( Is it brá? :/

May 18, 2015 5:55 PM

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Thank you so much, Gudmundur :)

May 22, 2015

Correct, but be aware of another similar verb 'bregða' which turns to 'brá' in past tense. It's also impersonal.

May 20, 2015

Thank you so much for your help, Magda! Brá was the word I was looking for, that settled it. You Slavic people are experts when it comes to grammar. :)

May 18, 2015

Hi :) I'm not a native speaker, so I might be wrong, but as far as I know, it's an impersonal form of the verb brá as you can see here: http://bin.arnastofnun.is/leit/?q=br%C3%A1%C3%B0i&ordmyndir=on# In any case, if you need to find a basic form of a word, just use BÍN and remember to tick the box marked with "Leita að beygingarmynd" (inflected forms). I think it means to recover, get better.

May 18, 2015

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