Swedish verb

frakta

carry, freight

Meaning

carry; freight

In Swedish: transportera gods

Conjugation

Conjugation of frakta (carry)
Infinitive	att frakta	to carry
Present	fraktar	jag fraktar
Past	fraktade	jag fraktade
Supine	fraktat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har fraktat	jag har fraktat
Past perfect	hade fraktat	jag hade fraktat
Future	ska frakta	or: kommer att frakta
Conditional	skulle frakta	jag skulle frakta
Imperative	frakta!	a command
Present participle	fraktande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	fraktad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of frakta
Infinitive	fraktas
Present	fraktas
Past	fraktades
Supine	fraktats

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 fraktar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise frakta

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

frakta in a sentence

kolet fraktades i stora pråmar ned till kusten
the coal was carried to the coast in large barges

Questions

What does frakta mean in English?

frakta means “carry, freight”.

What is the past tense of frakta?

The past tense of frakta is fraktade (“jag fraktade”). The supine is fraktat, used in “jag har fraktat”.

What is the present tense of frakta?

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

Similar words

transporteraforsla

Origin

Inherited from Old Swedish frakta, from Middle Low German vrachten.

Nearby common words

frakta is number 6,415 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

6,411uppehåll break, dry
6,412bönfalla supplicate, plead
6,413duell duel
6,414fik café
6,416inofficiell inofficial, inoficial
6,417cv initialism of curriculum vitae
6,418fontän fountain
6,419skolka cut class, play truant

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