Swedish verb· top 500 most common

dö

die/døː/

Meaning

die

In Swedish: sluta att leva, mista livet

Conjugation

Conjugation of dö (die)
Infinitive	att dö	to die
Present	dör	jag dör
Past	dog	jag dog
Supine	dött	used after har / hade
Perfect	har dött	jag har dött
Past perfect	hade dött	jag hade dött
Future	ska dö	or: kommer att dö
Conditional	skulle dö	jag skulle dö
Imperative	dö!	a command
Present participle	döende	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of dö
Infinitive	dös
Present	dös
Past	dogs
Supine	dötts

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 dör. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise dö

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

dö in a sentence

leendet dog på hennes läppar
the smile died on her lips
dö av svält
die of starvation

Questions

What does dö mean in English?

dö means “die”.

What is the past tense of dö?

The past tense of dö is dog (“jag dog”). The supine is dött, used in “jag har dött”.

What is the present tense of dö?

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

Similar words

avlidakolagå bort

Where the course teaches it

How Swedish forms the past participle
Complete Swedish – Season 1

Origin

From Old Swedish dø̄ia, from Old Norse deyja (“to die”) (compare English die), from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew-.

Nearby common words

dö is number 226 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

222kväll evening
223håll way, direction
224ledsen sad
225människa a human, a human being, man, mankind, humankind
227hör hear
228sett watched, seen
229gammal old
230snälla please (when pleading)

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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