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drömma

dream

Meaning

dream

In Swedish: ha en dröm, fantisera

Conjugation

Conjugation of drömma (dream)
Infinitive	att drömma	to dream
Present	drömmer	jag drömmer
Past	drömde	jag drömde
Supine	drömt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har drömt	jag har drömt
Past perfect	hade drömt	jag hade drömt
Future	ska drömma	or: kommer att drömma
Conditional	skulle drömma	jag skulle drömma
Imperative	dröm!	a command
Present participle	drömmande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	drömd	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of drömma
Infinitive	drömmas
Present	drömms
Past	drömdes
Supine	drömts

Group 2: -er verbs. Present -er, past -de or -te (after a voiceless consonant), supine -t. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use drömmer. See the four verb groups explained.

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

drömma in a sentence

det hade jag inte kunnat drömma om
I would never have dreamed it (was like that)
jag drömde att det var fred på jorden
I dreamed there was peace on earth
gå och drömma
cherish a dream

Questions

What does drömma mean in English?

drömma means “dream”.

What is the past tense of drömma?

The past tense of drömma is drömde (“jag drömde”). The supine is drömt, used in “jag har drömt”.

What is the present tense of drömma?

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

Origin

From Old Swedish drø̄ma, from Old Norse dreyma, from Proto-Germanic *draumijaną.

Nearby common words

drömma is number 1,429 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,425otrolig unbelievable
1,426gjord made, done
1,427peta poke, oust
1,428samtidigt simultaneously, at the same time
1,430miljon million
1,431snällt kindly
1,432präst priest, clergyman
1,433varelse being

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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