Meaning of koka | Babel Free

Definitioner

1. to boil (turn from liquid into gas by creating gas bubbles throughout the liquid)
   intransitive
2. to boil (cook in boiling water)
   transitive

Exempel

“vattnet började koka”

the water started to boil

“Kocken började koka ärtorna”

The chef started to boil the peas

“Byssan lull, koka kittelen [kitteln] full, där kommer tre vandringsmän på vägen. Byssan lull, koka kittelen [kitteln] full, där kommer tre vandringsmän på vägen. Den ene är så halt, den andre är så blind, den tredje har så trasiga kläder.”

Byssan lull ["lull lull!", to lull (a child) to sleep – usually "vyssan lull"], cook [boil] the cauldron full, [over] there comes three wanderers on the road. Byssan lull, cook [boil] the cauldron full, [over] there comes three wanderers on the road. One is so halt [limping, lame], the other is so blind [sic – "so blind" sounds the same in Swedish], the third has such tattered clothes [Ene/andre is usually used of two people, like in English, but occasionally of more people].

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