# fika
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish fika.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfiːkə/

### Noun

fika (usually uncountable, plural fikas)
* The Swedish practice of taking a break from daily activities or meeting with people to enjoy pastries and drinks, typically coffee.
    Synonym: coffee break
** 2015, Anna Brones, Johanna Kindvall, Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break, with Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats, page 3:Fika can be done anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.
** 2016, Melissa Bahen, Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast: 70 Simple Recipes & Crafts for Everyday Celebrations, page 65:Fika is casual by nature, so there's no need to get fancy.
** 2018, Lynda Balslev, The Little Book of Fika: The Uplifting Daily Ritual of the Swedish Coffee Break, page 7:Today, fika is a necessary component to work-life balance.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fika.

### Anagrams

* kafi, kaif

## Albanian
### Verb

fika
* first-person singular aorist indicative of fik

## Esperanto
### Alternative forms

* f*ka (censored)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfika]
* Rhymes: -ika
* Hyphenation: fi‧ka

### Adjective

fika (accusative singular fikan, plural fikaj, accusative plural fikajn)
* (vulgar) fucking, fucken
** 2000 January 16, David J. Coffin, “Neĝa Taglibro (komika)”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎ (Usenet), message-ID <nEcg4.3600$Ef6.939221@news.shore.net>:Dek-kvin Dio-damnaj fikaj centimetroj da fika neĝo kaj fika neĝpluvo kaj fika glacio kaj neniu scias kia alia blanka fekaĵo falis lastanokte.15 goddamn fucking centimeters of fucking snow and fucking sleet and fucking ice and nobody-knows-what kind of other white shit fell last night.

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, “ripe fig”); see fig for more.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfiːka/
* Rhymes: -iːka

### Noun

fika f (genitive singular fiku, plural fikur)
* fig

#### Derived terms

* fikublað
* fikutræ

## Fijian
### Noun

fika
* mathematics

## Guianese Creole
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese ficar.

### Verb

fika
* to be located at
    I fika Kayenn. ― He is living in Cayenne.

#### Descendants

* Karipúna Creole French: fika

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfikɒ]
* Hyphenation: fi‧ka
* Rhymes: -kɒ

### Noun

fika (plural fikák)
* (dialectal or informal) snot, booger (a piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril)
    Synonym: takony
* (dialectal) little child or young student
    Synonyms: gyerek, kisgyerek, diák, kisdiák
* (dialectal, archaic, derogatory) common soldier
    Synonyms: baka, gyalogos, bakancsos

#### Derived terms

* fikás
* fikáz

## Luba-Kasai
### Verb

fika
* to arrive

### Further reading

* fika in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

### Verb

-fika
* to arrive

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

fika f
* definite singular of fike

## Phuthi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

### Verb

-fika
* to arrive

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.ka/
* Rhymes: -ika
* Syllabification: fi‧ka

### Verb

fika
* third-person singular present of fikać

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

### Verb

-fika
* to arrive

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-fika (infinitive kufika)
* to arrive

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -fika :
| Positive present | -nafika |
| Subjunctive | -fike |
| Negative | -fiki |
| Imperative singular | fika |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kufika |
| Negative | kutofika |
Imperatives :
| Singular | fika |
| Plural | fikeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hufika |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lifika |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kufika |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tafika |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tafika |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sifike |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngefika |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singefika |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalifika |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalifika |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mefika |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshafika |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jafika |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kifika |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipofika |
| Consecutive | kafika / positive subject concord + -kafika |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kafike |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -fikia (“to lodge at, to overcome, to arrive at”)
** Causative: -fikisha (“to deliver”)

## Swazi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

### Verb

-fika
* to arrive

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²fiːka/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

This sense is attested in writing from 1910. One possible explanation is that the word is formed by backslang of the syllables in the dialectal word kaffi (“coffee”), from Dutch koffie or a similar source. Another possible etymology is that it is derived from the older verb fika (desire, crave – see § Etymology 2), in the sense of craving something sweet.

#### Noun

fika c or n
* having coffee, tea, saft (“cordial, squash”), or the like, usually with cookies, pastries, or other (sweet) snacks, usually with others, as a social activity
** 1991, Lars Pålsson Syll, Samhälleliga val, värde och exploatering. En ekonomisk-filosofisk kritik, page 90:Om Nils är koffeinist, kommer han att föredra fikan med mest kaffe, oberoende av hur många kakor som kan ingå i alternativen.If Nils is a caffeineist, he'll prefer the fika with the most coffee, independent of how many biscuits that may be included in the alternatives.
** a coffee (or tea, etc.) break, when taking a break to do the above

##### Usage notes

Sometimes at more or less fixed times of the day, for example mid-morning or mid-afternoon, similar to English afternoon tea.

##### Derived terms

* fikabröd
* fikapaus
* fikarast
* fikarum
* gofika
* jobbfika
* personalfika

#### Verb

fika (present fikar, preterite fikade, supine fikat, imperative fika)
* to have fika; to have coffee
    De är det fikande folket.They are the people that enjoy fika.
** 2000, Arne Dahl, Upp till toppen av berget:Det var strax efter lunchtid, och man fikade för tredje gången denna torsdag.It was right after lunchtime, and one had fika for the third time this thursday.

##### Conjugation

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

#### Related terms

* fik

#### References

* ↑ fika in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

### Etymology 2

Attested in writing from 1527. From Old Swedish fikia (“to hurry, to eagerly strive for”). Related to Danish fige, dialectal Norwegian fikia, Icelandic fíkjask. According to Svenska Akademiens ordbok, it might be related to the Norwegian verb fika (“to eagerly move ones arms back and forth”) and German ficken (“to rub”).

#### Verb

fika (present fikar, preterite fikade, supine fikat, imperative fika)
* (archaic) to strive for, to work hard; to desire, often with the preposition efter
    att fika efter makt ― to strive for power
** 1917, “Ordspråksboken 28:20 [Book of Proverbs 28:20]”, in 1917 års kyrkobibel [Church Bible of 1917]:En redlig man får mycken välsignelse; men den som fikar efter att varda rik, kan bliver icke ostraffad.An honorable man get much blessing; but the one who strives to get rich, may not remain unpunished.
* (archaic) to hurry

##### Conjugation

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

##### Derived terms

* fika efter

#### References

* fika in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* fika in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* ↑ fika in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.ka/

### Noun

fika
* ash, ashes

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

### Verb

-fika
* (intransitive) to arrive
* to come to

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-pìka.

### Verb

-fika
* (intransitive) to arrive, to reach [with locative]

#### Derived terms

* umafikazisina

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “fika”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “fika (6.3)”