Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

bolla

play ball

Meaning

play ball

In Swedish: kasta boll, jonglera

Conjugation

Conjugation of bolla (play ball)
Infinitive	att bolla	to play ball
Present	bollar	jag bollar
Past	bollade	jag bollade
Supine	bollat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har bollat	jag har bollat
Past perfect	hade bollat	jag hade bollat
Future	ska bolla	or: kommer att bolla
Conditional	skulle bolla	jag skulle bolla
Imperative	bolla!	a command
Present participle	bollande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	bollad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of bolla
Infinitive	bollas
Present	bollas
Past	bollades
Supine	bollats

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 bollar. See the four verb groups explained.

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bolla in a sentence

bolla över frågan till någon
turn the question over to someone
bolla idéer
bounce ideas

Questions

What does bolla mean in English?

bolla means “play ball”.

What is the past tense of bolla?

The past tense of bolla is bollade (“jag bollade”). The supine is bollat, used in “jag har bollat”.

What is the present tense of bolla?

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

Origin

boll (“ball”) + -a

Nearby common words

bolla is number 2,629 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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2,626media Media
2,627svaghet weakness
2,628påbörja begin
2,630nazist Nazi
2,631dyrt dearly, solemnly, costly
2,632socker sugar, diabetes
2,633korrekt correct

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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