Swedish verb· top 500 most common

flytta

move/²flʏtːa/

Meaning

move

In Swedish: föra till annan plats

Conjugation

Conjugation of flytta (move)
Infinitive	att flytta	to move
Present	flyttar	jag flyttar
Past	flyttade	jag flyttade
Supine	flyttat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har flyttat	jag har flyttat
Past perfect	hade flyttat	jag hade flyttat
Future	ska flytta	or: kommer att flytta
Conditional	skulle flytta	jag skulle flytta
Imperative	flytta!	a command
Present participle	flyttande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	flyttad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of flytta
Infinitive	flyttas
Present	flyttas
Past	flyttades
Supine	flyttats

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 flyttar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise flytta

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flytta in a sentence

vill du flytta på stolen
Will you move the chair, please?
flytta ihop
go to live together
flytta in i en lägenhet
move into a flat
flytta över verksamheten
transfer the business (operation)
Han flyttade grejen till en ny plats
He moved the thing to a new location
Han flyttade sig för att inte vara ivägen
He moved so as to not be in the way
Flytta dig!
Get out of the way!
Han flyttade
He moved

Words built with flytta

flyttbil removal van

Questions

What does flytta mean in English?

flytta means “move”.

What is the past tense of flytta?

The past tense of flytta is flyttade (“jag flyttade”). The supine is flyttat, used in “jag har flyttat”.

What is the present tense of flytta?

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

Similar words

omplaceringtransfer

Where the course teaches it

Swedish verbs built from Greek-origin words
Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

From Old Swedish flytia, from Old Norse flytja, from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną.

Nearby common words

flytta is number 419 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

415släpp release
416glad pleased, happy
417ställa put, set
418hoppa jump, leap, skip, bound
420emot opposite
421ställe place, house
422rör pipe, tube
423hjärta heart, sympathy

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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