Nominal Forms
Infinitive:
blíva
Past Participle:
blivin
Present participle:
blívandi
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| eg | blívi |
| tú | blívur |
| hann | blívur |
| vit | blíva |
| tit | blíva |
| teir | blíva |
Past
| eg | bleiv |
| tú | bleivst |
| hann | bleiv |
| vit | blivu |
| tit | blivu |
| teir | blivu |
Pluperfect
Preterite
Preterite Perfect
Future
Future Perfect
Verbs conjugated like blíva
blíva,
bíta,
dríta,
dríva,
glíða,
grípa,
hvína,
klíva,
líta,
líða,
míga,
níga,
níta,
rína,
rísa,
ríva,
ríða,
skríða,
skína,
skíta, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Etymology
From Middle Low German bliven (“to remain”), from Old Saxon bilīvan, from Proto-West Germanic *bilīban, from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną. See: Proto-Germanic '
*bilībaną'.
Translations
become, to begin to be
Sample Sentences