Swedish verb· top 500 most common

dra

pull, haul, leave, go/drɑː/

Meaning

pull; haul; leave; go; draw; extract; be draughty; use

In Swedish: föra till sig (med handen)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dra (pull)
Infinitive	att dra	to pull
Present	drar	jag drar
Past	drog	jag drog
Supine	dragit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har dragit	jag har dragit
Past perfect	hade dragit	jag hade dragit
Future	ska dra	or: kommer att dra
Conditional	skulle dra	jag skulle dra
Imperative	dra!	a command
Present participle	dragande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	dragen	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of dra
Infinitive	dras
Present	dras
Past	drogs
Supine	dragits

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 drar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise dra

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

dra in a sentence

dra ner rullgardinen
pull down the blind
dra i handbromsen
pull the emergency brake
dra på en kärra
haul a cart
gå och dra (benen efter sig)
hang about
låt teet dra i fem minuter
withdraw
dra sig undan
move aside, withdraw
dra slutsatser (av något)
draw conclusions (from sth.)
dra lärdom (av något)
learn (from sth.)

Expressions

dra öronen åt sig
be all ears
dra lott om
draw straws
dra ett streck över
let bygones be bygones

Questions

What does dra mean in English?

dra means “pull, haul”.

What is the past tense of dra?

The past tense of dra is drog (“jag drog”). The supine is dragit, used in “jag har dragit”.

What is the present tense of dra?

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

Similar words

stickgittadragaavvika

Where the course teaches it

Swedish kitchen vocabulary and the verb föredra
Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

Apocopic form of draga, from Old Swedish dragha, from Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ-.

Nearby common words

dra is number 261 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

257lyssna listen
258mår feel
259ur from, out of
260far father
262morgon morning
263kvar left
265föra transport, lead
266åh oh

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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