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bortse

disregard, ignore

Meaning

disregard, ignore

Conjugation

Conjugation of bortse (disregard)
Infinitive	att bortse	to disregard
Present	bortser	jag bortser
Past	bortsåg	jag bortsåg
Supine	bortsett	used after har / hade
Perfect	har bortsett	jag har bortsett
Past perfect	hade bortsett	jag hade bortsett
Future	ska bortse	or: kommer att bortse
Conditional	skulle bortse	jag skulle bortse
Imperative	bortse!	a command
Present participle	bortseende	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	bortsedd	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of bortse
Infinitive	bortses
Present	bortses
Past	bortsågs
Supine	bortsetts

Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use bortser. See the four verb groups explained.

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Yesterday I … (bortse). Which is the past tense?

Expressions

bortsett från ("oavsett") detta
apart from ("irrespective of") that

Questions

What does bortse mean in English?

bortse means “disregard, ignore”.

What is the past tense of bortse?

The past tense of bortse is bortsåg (“jag bortsåg”). The supine is bortsett, used in “jag har bortsett”.

What is the present tense of bortse?

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

Nearby common words

bortse is number 3,156 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,152brutal brutal
3,153skratt laugh, laughter
3,154grepp grasp, grip
3,155sedd seen
3,157kommunikation communication
3,158gemensam common, collective, common
3,159super perfect, super, excellent, great
3,160brittiska a female Brit (British woman)

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