Noun: snäppa
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | snäppa |
| Sg. Def. | snäppan |
| Pl. Indef. | snäppor |
| Pl. Def. | snäpporna |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | snäppas |
| Sg. Def. | snäppans |
| Pl. Indef. | snäppors |
| Pl. Def. | snäppornas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like snäppa
hojtarolja,
pocketrea,
syssla,
inbjudningslista,
kroppkaka,
snäppa,
snärja,
snärta,
snäcka,
snurra,
snippa,
salvia,
urtavla,
grendosa,
smitta,
smocka,
smedja,
togolesiska,
slunga,
slinka, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German sneppe, after the long, thin beak of the bird, from or related to Old Saxon *snabul, from Proto-Germanic *snabulaz (“snout, beak, mouth”). Cognate of German Schnepfe, Dutch snip, Faroese mýrisnípa. First attested in 1664. See: German Nouns '
Schnepfe', Dutch Nouns '
snip', Faroese Nouns '
mýrisnípa'.
Translations
snap, to fit or fasten together with a snapping sound