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glida

slide, slip, glide

Meaning

slide; slip; glide

In Swedish: röra sig långsamt och jämnt; halka, slinta

Conjugation

Conjugation of glida (slide)
Infinitive	att glida	to slide
Present	glider	jag glider
Past	gled	jag gled
Supine	glidit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har glidit	jag har glidit
Past perfect	hade glidit	jag hade glidit
Future	ska glida	or: kommer att glida
Conditional	skulle glida	jag skulle glida
Imperative	glid!	a command
Present participle	glidande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of glida
Infinitive	glidas
Present	glids
Past	gleds
Supine	glidits

Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use glider. See the four verb groups explained.

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glida in a sentence

floden glider förbi
the river flows by
låta något glida sig ur händerna
let sth. slip away from you
talaren gled snabbt över problemet
the speaker skipped quickly over the problem
Butlern gled ljudlöst in i rummet
The butler glided noiselessly into the room
glida isär
drift apart

Questions

What does glida mean in English?

glida means “slide, slip”.

What is the past tense of glida?

The past tense of glida is gled (“jag gled”). The supine is glidit, used in “jag har glidit”.

What is the present tense of glida?

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

Similar words

kana

Origin

From Middle Low German glīden, from Old Saxon glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.

Nearby common words

glida is number 3,307 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,303åstadkomma cause, bring about
3,304skärp belt
3,305skytt marksman, shot
3,306efterlyst wanted
3,308lösenord password, watchword
3,309tempel temple, tempel
3,310besvära bother, trouble
3,311handduk a towel (cloth for drying)

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