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drunkna

drown

Meaning

drown

In Swedish: dö genom kvävning i vatten

Conjugation

Conjugation of drunkna (drown)
Infinitive	att drunkna	to drown
Present	drunknar	jag drunknar
Past	drunknade	jag drunknade
Supine	drunknat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har drunknat	jag har drunknat
Past perfect	hade drunknat	jag hade drunknat
Future	ska drunkna	or: kommer att drunkna
Conditional	skulle drunkna	jag skulle drunkna
Imperative	drunkna!	a command
Present participle	drunknande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	drunknad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of drunkna
Infinitive	drunknas
Present	drunknas
Past	drunknades
Supine	drunknats

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 drunknar. See the four verb groups explained.

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drunkna in a sentence

ljudet från flöjten drunknade i trafikbullret
the sound of the flute was drowned in the noise of the traffic
fiskaren föll överbord och drunknade
the fisherman fell overboard and drowned
drunkna i detaljer
drown in details

Questions

What does drunkna mean in English?

drunkna means “drown”.

What is the past tense of drunkna?

The past tense of drunkna is drunknade (“jag drunknade”). The supine is drunknat, used in “jag har drunknat”.

What is the present tense of drunkna?

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

Nearby common words

drunkna is number 2,702 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,697läskigt scary, creepy
2,698hörni used to get attention from a group of people, hey, listen
2,699andetag breath
2,701minska diminish, reduce
2,704gryning dawn
2,705social social, public
2,706tung heavy, major
2,707process process, lawsuit

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary