# hitta
## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhitːa/ [ˈhɪtːʌ]
* Hyphenation: hit‧ta

### Pronoun

hítta
* Alternative form of ítta

### References

* Enid M. Parker (2006) English-Afar dictionary, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page vi

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse hitta.

### Verb

hitta (third person singular past indicative hitti, supine hitt)
* to meet

#### Conjugation

$^1$Only the past participle being declined.

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse hitta.

### Verb

hitta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hitti, supine hitt)
* to meet [with accusative]
    Ég hitti vini mína í gær. ― I met my friends yesterday.
    Við hittumst í síðustu viku á hótelinu. ― We met last week at the hotel.
* to hit (a target in the right place) [with accusative]
    Synonym: hæfa
    Ég hitti beint í mark! ― I hit the target!
This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* hitta naglann á höfuðið
* hittast

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

hitta
* past tense of hitte
* supine of hitte

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* hitte (e-infinitive)

### Etymology

From Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”).

### Verb

hitta (present tense hittar, past tense hitta, past participle hitta, passive infinitive hittast, present participle hittande, imperative hitta/hitt)
* to hit upon, meet
* to find

#### Derived terms

* hitta på
* hitt
* hitten
* hittebarn
* hittegods

### References

* “hitta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hittju. Cognate with Old High German hizza.

### Noun

hitta f
* heat

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: hitte
** Dutch: hitte

#### References

* “hitta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to cut, strike, fall, fall upon”). Cognate with Old English hittan. The participle forms are of the same verb.

### Verb

hitta (singular past indicative hitti, plural past indicative hittu, past participle hittr)
* to hit upon, meet
* to hit, strike
* to visit, see

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: hitta
* Faroese: hitta
* Norwegian Nynorsk: hitta, hitte
* Norwegian Bokmål: hitte
* Swedish: hitta
* Danish: hitte

### Participle

hitta
* strong feminine accusative singular of hittr
* strong masculine accusative plural of hittr
* weak masculine oblique singular of hittr
* weak feminine nominative singular of hittr
* weak neuter all cases singular of hittr

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hitta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Shabo
### Verb

hitta
* stand up

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish hitta, from Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɪtːˌa/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

hitta (present hittar, preterite hittade, supine hittat, imperative hitta)
* to find, to locate (an object); to stumble upon; to discover
* to know one's way; to be able to locate places

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Synonyms

* (to find an object): finna (slightly more formal)

#### Related terms

* hitta på
* hitta till
* hitta ut
* hittepå
* hittegods
* upphittad

### Further reading

* hitta in Svensk ordbok.