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hota

threaten, menace

Meaning

threaten; menace

In Swedish: varna för följderna om inte talarens krav uppfylls

Conjugation

Conjugation of hota (threaten)
Infinitive	att hota	to threaten
Present	hotar	jag hotar
Past	hotade	jag hotade
Supine	hotat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har hotat	jag har hotat
Past perfect	hade hotat	jag hade hotat
Future	ska hota	or: kommer att hota
Conditional	skulle hota	jag skulle hota
Imperative	hota!	a command
Present participle	hotande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	hotad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of hota
Infinitive	hotas
Present	hotas
Past	hotades
Supine	hotats

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 hotar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

hota in a sentence

arbetarna hotades med avsked
the workers were threatened with dismissal
hota med strejk
threaten to strike

Questions

What does hota mean in English?

hota means “threaten, menace”.

What is the past tense of hota?

The past tense of hota is hotade (“jag hotade”). The supine is hotat, used in “jag har hotat”.

What is the present tense of hota?

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

Origin

From Old Norse hóta, derived from the noun hót n pl (“threat”) (cf.

Nearby common words

hota is number 1,132 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,128innebära involve, mean
1,129nyss just now
1,130spara to save, to store for future use, to save; write to a disc
1,131pari par (value equalling the face value)
1,133blåljuga to lie outright, to lie through one's teeth
1,134njuta enjoy
1,135tillstånd permission, state
1,136bära carry; wear

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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