Swedish verb· top 500 most common

kolla

check, watch, look (at)/ˈkɔˌla/

Meaning

check; watch; look (at)

In Swedish: kontrollera, undersöka

Conjugation

Conjugation of kolla (check)
Infinitive	att kolla	to check
Present	kollar	jag kollar
Past	kollade	jag kollade
Supine	kollat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har kollat	jag har kollat
Past perfect	hade kollat	jag hade kollat
Future	ska kolla	or: kommer att kolla
Conditional	skulle kolla	jag skulle kolla
Imperative	kolla!	a command
Present participle	kollande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	kollad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of kolla
Infinitive	kollas
Present	kollas
Past	kollades
Supine	kollats

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 kollar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

kolla in a sentence

kolla oljan
check the oil
Kolla vilken bil!
Check out that car!
De kollade på den stora älgen
They looked at the large moose
Vi kollade på en film
We watched a movie
Kolla om mjölken är slut!
Check/see if we're out of milk!
Kolla mejlen
Check your email
Vem som helst kan enkelt kolla upp var vi bor
Anyone can easily look up where we live
en sida där man kan kolla upp och jämföra serviceintervall för olika bilmodeller
a site where you can look up and compare service intervals for different car models

Questions

What does kolla mean in English?

kolla means “check, watch”.

What is the past tense of kolla?

The past tense of kolla is kollade (“jag kollade”). The supine is kollat, used in “jag har kollat”.

What is the present tense of kolla?

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

Similar words

granskacheckakikatittaspanasyna

Origin

Shortened from kollationera (“collate (documents or the like, to discover similarities and differences)”).

Nearby common words

kolla is number 251 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

247pengar money
248enda only, single
249namn name
250ens even
252borta away, out
253hallå hello
254bil car, motorcar
255familj family

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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