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fängsla

imprison, fascinate, captivate

Meaning

imprison; fascinate; captivate

In Swedish: sätta i fängelse

Conjugation

Conjugation of fängsla (imprison)
Infinitive	att fängsla	to imprison
Present	fängslar	jag fängslar
Past	fängslade	jag fängslade
Supine	fängslat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har fängslat	jag har fängslat
Past perfect	hade fängslat	jag hade fängslat
Future	ska fängsla	or: kommer att fängsla
Conditional	skulle fängsla	jag skulle fängsla
Imperative	fängsla!	a command
Present participle	fängslande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	fängslad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of fängsla
Infinitive	fängslas
Present	fängslas
Past	fängslades
Supine	fängslats

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 fängslar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise fängsla

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

fängsla in a sentence

många inom oppositionen har fängslats
many of the opposition have been imprisoned
Hur skall en talare kunna fängsla sin publik?
How can a speaker fascinate his audience?

Questions

What does fängsla mean in English?

fängsla means “imprison, fascinate”.

What is the past tense of fängsla?

The past tense of fängsla is fängslade (“jag fängslade”). The supine is fängslat, used in “jag har fängslat”.

What is the present tense of fängsla?

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

Similar words

frihetsberöva

Origin

Back-formation from fängsel, from fängelse (“prison”).

Nearby common words

fängsla is number 4,796 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

4,792laddning charge
4,793trygghet security, safety
4,794messa to send an SMS message, to text
4,795lönnmördare an assassin
4,797gorilla gorilla
4,798tjur bull
4,799upplopp riot, finishing stretch
4,800modigt boldly

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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