Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

kräkas

vomit, be sick/²krɛːˌkas/

Meaning

vomit; be sick

In Swedish: få upp mat från magen genom munnen, kasta upp, spy

Conjugation

Conjugation of kräkas (vomit)
Infinitive	att kräkas	to vomit
Present	kräks	jag kräks
Past	kräktes	jag kräktes
Supine	kräkts	used after har / hade
Perfect	har kräkts	jag har kräkts
Past perfect	hade kräkts	jag hade kräkts
Future	ska kräkas	or: kommer att kräkas
Conditional	skulle kräkas	jag skulle kräkas
Imperative	kräks!	a command

kräkas is a deponent verb: it ends in -s in every form but has an active meaning, so it has no separate passive. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use kräks. See the four verb groups explained.

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What does kräkas mean?

kräkas in a sentence

Det är lätt att förstå varför du vill kräkas.
It is easy to understand why you want to vomit.

Questions

What does kräkas mean in English?

kräkas means “vomit, be sick”.

What is the past tense of kräkas?

The past tense of kräkas is kräktes (“jag kräktes”). The supine is kräkts, used in “jag har kräkts”.

What is the present tense of kräkas?

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

Similar words

spyvomerauppstötakasta upp

Origin

From Old Swedish kräkias, from Old Norse kræghe, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).

Nearby common words

kräkas is number 4,021 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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4,023ide hibernation, winter lair
4,024valp puppy
4,025friska healthy

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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