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veita
veita
See also: veîta
Icelandic
Verb
veita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative veitti, supine veitt)
- (ditransitive, governs the dative and accusaive) to give somebody something, to grant, to offer
- Hún veitti mér verðlaun.
- She gave me an award.
- Hún veitti mér verðlaun.
- (transitive, governs the dative) to pipe water
- (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)