Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

grava

cure in salt and sugar, pickle

Meaning

cure in salt and sugar; pickle

In Swedish: tillaga (fisk) genom sockersaltning och lätt pressning

Conjugation

Conjugation of grava (cure in salt and sugar)
Infinitive	att grava	to cure in salt and sugar
Present	gravar	jag gravar
Past	gravade	jag gravade
Supine	gravat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har gravat	jag har gravat
Past perfect	hade gravat	jag hade gravat
Future	ska grava	or: kommer att grava
Conditional	skulle grava	jag skulle grava
Imperative	grava!	a command
Present participle	gravande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	gravad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of grava
Infinitive	gravas
Present	gravas
Past	gravades
Supine	gravats

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 gravar. See the four verb groups explained.

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grava in a sentence

gravad lax
gravlax

Questions

What does grava mean in English?

grava means “cure in salt and sugar, pickle”.

What is the past tense of grava?

The past tense of grava is gravade (“jag gravade”). The supine is gravat, used in “jag har gravat”.

What is the present tense of grava?

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

Origin

Formed from grav (“grave”), referring to burying fish in the ground.

Nearby common words

grava is number 3,853 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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3,850hinder obstacle, impediment
3,851undersökt examined, investigated
3,852bacon bacon
3,854kreativ creative
3,855turist tourist
3,856svälta starve
3,857fruga wife

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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