Crackers

[Hewitt, Stephen]

In Swedish, there is, from Språkrådets Lexin Swedish-English dictionary http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/swe-eng:

"The word spräcka is not in the dictionary!
However it exists in Swedish.

Swedish entry word
spräcker [spr'ek:er] spräckte spräckt spräck! spräcka verb 
få att spricka [=get to crack (intr.)]
<A/x spräcker y> 

English translation
crack, split 

Examples
stenen spräckte rutan---the stone cracked the glass"

Best,

Steve Hewitt


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As far as I can figure (and the Bokmålsordboka dictrionary online agrees 
with me), the gap exists in Norwegian as well. I can say /Vasen sprakk/ 
'the vase cracked' or /Vasen er sprukket/ 'the vase is cracked, has a 
crack in it' - but not /*Han sprakk vasen/ 'he cracked the vase'.

I wouldn't be surprised if other speakers disagree with me though. There 
seems to be an increasing tendency i Norwegian toward transitive use of 
verbs which I perceive as intransitive.

Best,

Åshild

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