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mista

lose, do without

Meaning

lose; do without

In Swedish: förlora, gå miste om

Conjugation

Conjugation of mista (lose)
Infinitive	att mista	to lose
Present	mister	jag mister
Past	miste	jag miste
Supine	mist	used after har / hade
Perfect	har mist	jag har mist
Past perfect	hade mist	jag hade mist
Future	ska mista	or: kommer att mista
Conditional	skulle mista	jag skulle mista
Imperative	mist!	a command
Present participle	mistande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	mist	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of mista
Infinitive	mistas
Present	mists
Past	mistes
Supine	mists

Group 2: -er verbs. Present -er, past -de or -te (after a voiceless consonant), supine -t. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use mister. See the four verb groups explained.

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

mista in a sentence

mista synen
lose one's sight
mista sin far
lose one's father
mista livet
lose one's life
mista talförmågan
lose one's ability to speak
mista förståndet
lose one's mind

Questions

What does mista mean in English?

mista means “lose, do without”.

What is the past tense of mista?

The past tense of mista is miste (“jag miste”). The supine is mist, used in “jag har mist”.

What is the present tense of mista?

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

Similar words

förloratappagå miste

Origin

From Old Swedish mista.

Nearby common words

mista is number 2,616 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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