Swedish verb

kittla

tickle

Meaning

tickle

In Swedish: uppleva en obehaglig irritation på huden

Conjugation

Conjugation of kittla (tickle)
Infinitive	att kittla	to tickle
Present	kittlar	jag kittlar
Past	kittlade	jag kittlade
Supine	kittlat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har kittlat	jag har kittlat
Past perfect	hade kittlat	jag hade kittlat
Future	ska kittla	or: kommer att kittla
Conditional	skulle kittla	jag skulle kittla
Imperative	kittla!	a command
Present participle	kittlande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	kittlad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of kittla
Infinitive	kittlas
Present	kittlas
Past	kittlades
Supine	kittlats

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 kittlar. See the four verb groups explained.

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kittla in a sentence

det kittlar under fötterna
my feet tickle
kittla någon under fötterna
tickle sby's feet
kittla någon
tickle someone
Det kittlar fantasin
It tickles the imagination

Questions

What does kittla mean in English?

kittla means “tickle”.

What is the past tense of kittla?

The past tense of kittla is kittlade (“jag kittlade”). The supine is kittlat, used in “jag har kittlat”.

What is the present tense of kittla?

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

Origin

From Old Swedish kitla, from Old Norse kitla, from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną, frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *kitōną (“to tickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *geid- (“to stick, jab, tickle”).

Nearby common words

kittla is number 5,971 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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5,969tidsmaskin time machine
5,970yoga yoga
5,972ess ace
5,973släckt turned off (of a light or candle), extinguished (of fire)
5,974otacksam ungrateful
5,975campa camp

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