UrsprungFrom Old Swedish salta, from Old Norse salta, from Proto-Germanic *saltaną.
- to salt (food or roads)
- to request much more payment than anticipated or deemed reasonable for a given, performed, piece of work
“Innan snickaren börjar arbeta, be honom uppskatta vad det kommer kosta så att han inte saltar räkningen efteråt.” — Before the carpenter starts to work, ask him to estimate what it will cost so that he cannot request unreasonably high payment afterwards.
- definite, form-of, singulardefinite singular
- form-of, pluralplural
Formersaltar(present) · saltade(preterite) · saltat(supine) · salta(imperative) · salta(active, infinitive) · saltas(infinitive, passive) · saltat(active, supine) · saltats(passive, supine) · salta(active, imperative) · -(imperative, passive) · salten(active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form) · -(archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive) · saltar(active, indicative, present) · saltade(active, indicative, past) · saltas(indicative, passive, present) · saltades(indicative, passive, past) · salta(active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form, present) · saltade(active, archaic, error-unrecognized-form, past) · saltas(archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive, present) · saltades(archaic, error-unrecognized-form, passive, past)