vulka
Spanish
    
FWOTD – 24 August 2017
    Etymology
    
Clipping of vulkanizadora, a variant spelling of vulcanizadora (“tire repair shop”, literally “vulcanizer”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈbulka/ [ˈbul.ka]
- Rhymes: -ulka
- Syllabification: vul‧ka
Noun
    
vulka f (plural vulkas)
- (Mexico, colloquial, nonstandard) a tire repair shop
- Te pueden parchar la llanta en la vulka de aquí cerca.- They can fix up your tire in the repair shop nearby.
 
 - 2014, Jaime Muñoz Vargas, “Nadie te espera”, in Milenio:- Esas frases pueden salir de la pluma de Voltaire o de la boca del compita que nos cambia la Firestone en una vulka, todo depende del misterioso encanto que contenga la pizca de palabras.- Phrases like these can come from the writings of Voltaire or from the mouth of the guy changing your Firestone tire in a repair shop, it all depends on the mysterious charm contained in the choice of words.
 
 
- 2016, Manolo Acosta, “Llanta ‘revienta’ cara a ingeniero”, in Zócalo:- […] los empleados de la vulka ayudaron al lesionado, quien sangraba de manera abundante debido a las lesiones.- […] workers from the tire repair shop assisted the injured man, who was bleeding profusely due to his wounds.
 
 
- 2017, Jesús Peña, “La historia de un kilómetro de carretera que se convierte en un pueblo”, in Vanguardia:- De su papá, el loco que hace 35 años se puso a vivir en una chatarra de combi con su mujer y sus nueve hijos a la orilla de la carretera libre Saltillo – Torreón, en el kilómetro 64 y abrió una vulka.- It was his dad's, the madman who 35 years before had begun to live in a jalopy van with his wife and nine children on the roadside of the toll-free Saltillo–Torreón highway, on kilometer 64, where he opened a tire repair shop.
 
 
 
Swedish
    
    
Conjugation
    
Conjugation of vulka (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | vulka | vulkas | ||
| Supine | vulkat | vulkats | ||
| Imperative | vulka | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | vulken | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | vulkar | vulkade | vulkas | vulkades | 
| Ind. plural1 | vulka | vulkade | vulkas | vulkades | 
| Subjunctive2 | vulke | vulkade | vulkes | vulkades | 
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | vulkande | |||
| Past participle | vulkad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Synonyms
    
- (standard language) vulkanisera
Derived terms
    
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