Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

borsta

brush

Meaning

brush

In Swedish: behandla med borste

Conjugation

Conjugation of borsta (brush)
Infinitive	att borsta	to brush
Present	borstar	jag borstar
Past	borstade	jag borstade
Supine	borstat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har borstat	jag har borstat
Past perfect	hade borstat	jag hade borstat
Future	ska borsta	or: kommer att borsta
Conditional	skulle borsta	jag skulle borsta
Imperative	borsta!	a command
Present participle	borstande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	borstad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of borsta
Infinitive	borstas
Present	borstas
Past	borstades
Supine	borstats

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 borstar. See the four verb groups explained.

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borsta in a sentence

Borsta bort smulorna från bordet!
Brush the crumbs off the table!
borsta tänderna
brush one's teeth
borsta tänderna/håret
brush one's teeth/hair
borsta bort snön från rutan
brush the snow off the windshield
borsta ut håret
brush out one's hair

Questions

What does borsta mean in English?

borsta means “brush”.

What is the past tense of borsta?

The past tense of borsta is borstade (“jag borstade”). The supine is borstat, used in “jag har borstat”.

What is the present tense of borsta?

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

Similar words

ryktaskrubba

Nearby common words

borsta is number 4,294 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

4,290vardagsrum living room
4,291hona female
4,292kika peep, peek
4,293promenera walk
4,295modiga courageous
4,296därmed thus, with that
4,297staket railing, fence
4,298hatta to act indecisively; to go back and forth, to chop and change

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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