Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

avlägsna

remove, dismissAlso the plural of avlägsen.

Meaning

remove; dismiss

In Swedish: få att försvinna

Conjugation

Conjugation of avlägsna (remove)
Infinitive	att avlägsna	to remove
Present	avlägsnar	jag avlägsnar
Past	avlägsnade	jag avlägsnade
Supine	avlägsnat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har avlägsnat	jag har avlägsnat
Past perfect	hade avlägsnat	jag hade avlägsnat
Future	ska avlägsna	or: kommer att avlägsna
Conditional	skulle avlägsna	jag skulle avlägsna
Imperative	avlägsna!	a command
Present participle	avlägsnande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	avlägsnad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of avlägsna
Infinitive	avlägsnas
Present	avlägsnas
Past	avlägsnades
Supine	avlägsnats

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 avlägsnar. See the four verb groups explained.

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avlägsna in a sentence

presidenten avlägsnades från sin post
the president was removed from his office
avlägsna sig från platsen
withdraw, leave a place

Questions

What does avlägsna mean in English?

avlägsna means “remove, dismiss”.

What is the past tense of avlägsna?

The past tense of avlägsna is avlägsnade (“jag avlägsnade”). The supine is avlägsnat, used in “jag har avlägsnat”.

What is the present tense of avlägsna?

avlägsnar, the same for every person: jag avlägsnar, du avlägsnar, vi avlägsnar.

Similar words

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Origin

avlägsen + -a

Nearby common words

avlägsna is number 3,348 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,344goa to trick someone into going to a place and then beat up or murder them
3,345grunda found, prime
3,346beställd ordered
3,347ko cow
3,349väck lost, gone (not found), out of it, gone, very intoxicated, not aware of what's going on
3,350tröst solace, comfort
3,351chockad chocked
3,352djupare deeper

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary