Swedish verb· top 2,000 most common

le

smile/leː/

Meaning

smile

In Swedish: dra på munnen, se road el. glad ut

Conjugation

Conjugation of le (smile)
Infinitive	att le	to smile
Present	ler	jag ler
Past	log	jag log
Supine	lett	used after har / hade
Perfect	har lett	jag har lett
Past perfect	hade lett	jag hade lett
Future	ska le	or: kommer att le
Conditional	skulle le	jag skulle le
Imperative	le!	a command
Present participle	leende	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of le
Infinitive	les
Present	ls
Past	logs
Supine	letts

Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use ler. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise le

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

le in a sentence

ett leende landskap
a sunny landscape
hon log mot mig
she smiled at me
Hon log brett
She smiled broadly
Hon log sarkastiskt
She smiled sarcastically
Han log från ena örat till det andra
He was grinning from ear to ear

Questions

What does le mean in English?

le means “smile”.

What is the past tense of le?

The past tense of le is log (“jag log”). The supine is lett, used in “jag har lett”.

What is the present tense of le?

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

Similar words

smilasmåleende

Origin

From Old Swedish lēia, lea, from Old Norse hlæja (“to laugh”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną.

Nearby common words

le is number 1,439 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,435attack attack
1,436exempel example
1,437karriär career
1,438studera study
1,440procent per cent
1,441ärligt honestly, honest
1,442ena agree, unite, unify
1,443upptäckt discovery

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