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drabba

hit, befall, strike, affect

Meaning

hit; befall; strike; affect

In Swedish: träffa, slå

Conjugation

Conjugation of drabba (hit)
Infinitive	att drabba	to hit
Present	drabbar	jag drabbar
Past	drabbade	jag drabbade
Supine	drabbat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har drabbat	jag har drabbat
Past perfect	hade drabbat	jag hade drabbat
Future	ska drabba	or: kommer att drabba
Conditional	skulle drabba	jag skulle drabba
Imperative	drabba!	a command
Present participle	drabbande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	drabbad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of drabba
Infinitive	drabbas
Present	drabbas
Past	drabbades
Supine	drabbats

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 drabbar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

drabba in a sentence

drabbas av hjärnblödning
suffer a cerebral haemorrhage
influensan drabbar hela Europa
influenza has struck all Europe
Han drabbades av en svår sjukdom
He was struck by a serious illness
Det är tur att det inte drabbar någon fattig
It is fortunate that it (this unexpected high cost) doesn't strike anybody (who is) poor. (Because I can afford to pay it.)

Questions

What does drabba mean in English?

drabba means “hit, befall”.

What is the past tense of drabba?

The past tense of drabba is drabbade (“jag drabbade”). The supine is drabbat, used in “jag har drabbat”.

What is the present tense of drabba?

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

Similar words

hända

Origin

From Old Swedish drabba‚ from Middle Low German drapen.

Nearby common words

drabba is number 2,277 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,273choklad chocolate
2,274hundratals hundreds of
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2,276skrämd frightened
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2,279sistone recently, lately
2,280övervaka supervise, monitor
2,281svensk Swedish

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