adoptera
Meaning
adopt
In Swedish: ta hand om annans barn som sitt eget för vård och uppfostran
Conjugation
| Infinitive | att adoptera | to adopt |
|---|---|---|
| Present | adopterar | jag adopterar |
| Past | adopterade | jag adopterade |
| Supine | adopterat | used after har / hade |
| Perfect | har adopterat | jag har adopterat |
| Past perfect | hade adopterat | jag hade adopterat |
| Future | ska adoptera | or: kommer att adoptera |
| Conditional | skulle adoptera | jag skulle adoptera |
| Imperative | adoptera! | a command |
| Present participle | adopterande | -ing, used as an adjective |
| Past participle | adopterad | used like an adjective, and agrees like one |
Passive (-s form)
| Infinitive | adopteras |
|---|---|
| Present | adopteras |
| Past | adopterades |
| Supine | adopterats |
Group 1: -ar verbs. Present -ar, past -ade, supine -at. The largest and most regular group. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use adopterar. See the four verb groups explained.
Practise adoptera
1 / 2Yesterday I … (adoptera). Which is the past tense?
Questions
What does adoptera mean in English?
adoptera means “adopt”.
What is the past tense of adoptera?
The past tense of adoptera is adopterade (“jag adopterade”). The supine is adopterat, used in “jag har adopterat”.
What is the present tense of adoptera?
adopterar, the same for every person: jag adopterar, du adopterar, vi adopterar.
Nearby common words
adoptera is number 3,004 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary