Swedish verb· top 1,000 most common

bevisa

prove; substantiate; demonstrate; show

Meaning

prove; substantiate; demonstrate; show

In Swedish: visa sanningen i (ett påstående etc)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bevisa (prove)
Infinitive	att bevisa	to prove
Present	bevisar	jag bevisar
Past	bevisade	jag bevisade
Supine	bevisat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har bevisat	jag har bevisat
Past perfect	hade bevisat	jag hade bevisat
Future	ska bevisa	or: kommer att bevisa
Conditional	skulle bevisa	jag skulle bevisa
Imperative	bevisa!	a command
Present participle	bevisande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	bevisad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of bevisa
Infinitive	bevisas
Present	bevisas
Past	bevisades
Supine	bevisats

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 bevisar. See the four verb groups explained.

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bevisa in a sentence

bevisa motsatsen
prove the opposite
forskarna har bevisat att rökning är skadlig
researchers have shown that smoking is dangerous

Questions

What does bevisa mean in English?

bevisa means “prove; substantiate; demonstrate; show”.

What is the past tense of bevisa?

The past tense of bevisa is bevisade (“jag bevisade”). The supine is bevisat, used in “jag har bevisat”.

What is the present tense of bevisa?

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

Similar words

belägga

Origin

be- + visa, like German beweisen

Nearby common words

bevisa is number 804 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

800frank frank
801försvinna disappear, be missing
802beklaga pity, regret
803eget own, personally, individualistically, uniquely, oddly, peculiarly
805stolt proud
806bryta break
807överallt everywhere
809allvar seriousness

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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