Swedish verb

fläcka

to stain (usually so as to make dirty), to tarnish

Meaning

to stain (usually so as to make dirty); to tarnish

Conjugation

Conjugation of fläcka (stain)
Infinitive	att fläcka	to stain
Present	fläckar	jag fläckar
Past	fläckade	jag fläckade
Supine	fläckat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har fläckat	jag har fläckat
Past perfect	hade fläckat	jag hade fläckat
Future	ska fläcka	or: kommer att fläcka
Conditional	skulle fläcka	jag skulle fläcka
Imperative	fläcka!	a command
Present participle	fläckande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	fläckad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of fläcka
Infinitive	fläckas
Present	fläckas
Past	fläckades
Supine	fläckats

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 fläckar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

fläcka in a sentence

Jag fläckade ner tröjan
I stained my shirt
Skandalen hade fläckat ner han rykte
The scandal had tarnished his reputation

Questions

What does fläcka mean in English?

fläcka means “to stain (usually so as to make dirty), to tarnish”.

What is the past tense of fläcka?

The past tense of fläcka is fläckade (“jag fläckade”). The supine is fläckat, used in “jag har fläckat”.

What is the present tense of fläcka?

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

Origin

From fläck (“stain, spot”) + -a.

Nearby common words

fläcka is number 5,285 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

5,281sjönk sank
5,282stående constant, standing
5,283drift operation, urge
5,284förtrollning enchantment
5,287rustning armament, armour
5,288galleri gallery, arcade
5,289mestadels mostly
5,290polisbil police car

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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