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fastna

get caught

Meaning

get caught

In Swedish: bli sittande (utan att komma loss), bli fast; stanna kvar

Conjugation

Conjugation of fastna (get caught)
Infinitive	att fastna	to get caught
Present	fastnar	jag fastnar
Past	fastnade	jag fastnade
Supine	fastnat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har fastnat	jag har fastnat
Past perfect	hade fastnat	jag hade fastnat
Future	ska fastna	or: kommer att fastna
Conditional	skulle fastna	jag skulle fastna
Imperative	fastna!	a command
Present participle	fastnande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of fastna
Infinitive	fastnas
Present	fastnas
Past	fastnades
Supine	fastnats

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 fastnar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

fastna in a sentence

fastna i minnet
stick in one's memory
fastna i en bilkö
get caught in a traffic jam

Expressions

fastna för något
take a liking to something

Questions

What does fastna mean in English?

fastna means “get caught”.

What is the past tense of fastna?

The past tense of fastna is fastnade (“jag fastnade”). The supine is fastnat, used in “jag har fastnat”.

What is the present tense of fastna?

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

Origin

fast + -na

Nearby common words

fastna is number 1,706 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,702vetat known
1,703stil writing, style
1,704tomt site, plot
1,705artikel article, commodity
1,707straff penalty, punishment
1,708driva drive, carry on
1,709elev pupil, student
1,710björn bear

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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