Swedish verb· top 2,000 most common

kontrollera

control, inspect, check

Meaning

control; inspect; check

In Swedish: ha kontroll över

Conjugation

Conjugation of kontrollera (control)
Infinitive	att kontrollera	to control
Present	kontrollerar	jag kontrollerar
Past	kontrollerade	jag kontrollerade
Supine	kontrollerat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har kontrollerat	jag har kontrollerat
Past perfect	hade kontrollerat	jag hade kontrollerat
Future	ska kontrollera	or: kommer att kontrollera
Conditional	skulle kontrollera	jag skulle kontrollera
Imperative	kontrollera!	a command
Present participle	kontrollerande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	kontrollerad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of kontrollera
Infinitive	kontrolleras
Present	kontrolleras
Past	kontrollerades
Supine	kontrollerats

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 kontrollerar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise kontrollera

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

kontrollera in a sentence

trupperna kontrollerar landets västra del
the troops control the western part of the country
kontrollera biljetterna
check the tickets

Questions

What does kontrollera mean in English?

kontrollera means “control, inspect”.

What is the past tense of kontrollera?

The past tense of kontrollera is kontrollerade (“jag kontrollerade”). The supine is kontrollerat, used in “jag har kontrollerat”.

What is the present tense of kontrollera?

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

Similar words

checkabesiktigagranskahålla uppsikt

Origin

kontroll + -era

Nearby common words

kontrollera is number 1,039 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,035sönder into a broken or destroyed state
1,036oskyldig innocent
1,037sov slept, was asleep
1,038pojkvän a boyfriend (male romantic partner)
1,040ond evil, bad
1,041rapport report
1,042vise a queen bee
1,043fullt fully

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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