Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

cykla

cycle

Meaning

cycle

In Swedish: åka cykel

Conjugation

Conjugation of cykla (cycle)
Infinitive	att cykla	to cycle
Present	cyklar	jag cyklar
Past	cyklade	jag cyklade
Supine	cyklat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har cyklat	jag har cyklat
Past perfect	hade cyklat	jag hade cyklat
Future	ska cykla	or: kommer att cykla
Conditional	skulle cykla	jag skulle cykla
Imperative	cykla!	a command
Present participle	cyklande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	cyklad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of cykla
Infinitive	cyklas
Present	cyklas
Past	cyklades
Supine	cyklats

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 cyklar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise cykla

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

cykla in a sentence

Sträckan som cyklades i reportaget är cirka 60 kilometer lång.
The distance that was biked in this article is some 60 kilometres long.

Expressions

vara ute och cykla
to talk through one's hat

Questions

What does cykla mean in English?

cykla means “cycle”.

What is the past tense of cykla?

The past tense of cykla is cyklade (“jag cyklade”). The supine is cyklat, used in “jag har cyklat”.

What is the present tense of cykla?

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

Similar words

velocipederahoja

Origin

cykel + -a

Nearby common words

cykla is number 3,704 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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3,708posta post

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