Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

kopiera

copy

Meaning

copy

In Swedish: ta kopia av

Conjugation

Conjugation of kopiera (copy)
Infinitive	att kopiera	to copy
Present	kopierar	jag kopierar
Past	kopierade	jag kopierade
Supine	kopierat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har kopierat	jag har kopierat
Past perfect	hade kopierat	jag hade kopierat
Future	ska kopiera	or: kommer att kopiera
Conditional	skulle kopiera	jag skulle kopiera
Imperative	kopiera!	a command
Present participle	kopierande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	kopierad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of kopiera
Infinitive	kopieras
Present	kopieras
Past	kopierades
Supine	kopierats

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 kopierar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

kopiera in a sentence

kopiera ett foto
print a photograph
Kopiera uppsatsen till PDA:n.
Copy the essay onto the PDA.

Questions

What does kopiera mean in English?

kopiera means “copy”.

What is the past tense of kopiera?

The past tense of kopiera is kopierade (“jag kopierade”). The supine is kopierat, used in “jag har kopierat”.

What is the present tense of kopiera?

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

Similar words

efterapaplagiera

Origin

From French copier, from Medieval Latin copiare, kopiera.

Nearby common words

kopiera is number 3,837 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,833atmosfär atmosphere
3,834döv deaf
3,835given given
3,836gjorda done
3,838ranch a ranch (in North America)
3,839besvärlig hard, troublesome
3,840funktion function, operation
3,841läsk soft drink

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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