mumla
Meaning
mumble
In Swedish: tala lågt och otydligt
Conjugation
| Infinitive | att mumla | to mumble |
|---|---|---|
| Present | mumlar | jag mumlar |
| Past | mumlade | jag mumlade |
| Supine | mumlat | used after har / hade |
| Perfect | har mumlat | jag har mumlat |
| Past perfect | hade mumlat | jag hade mumlat |
| Future | ska mumla | or: kommer att mumla |
| Conditional | skulle mumla | jag skulle mumla |
| Imperative | mumla! | a command |
| Present participle | mumlande | -ing, used as an adjective |
| Past participle | mumlad | used like an adjective, and agrees like one |
Passive (-s form)
| Infinitive | mumlas |
|---|---|
| Present | mumlas |
| Past | mumlades |
| Supine | mumlats |
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 mumlar. See the four verb groups explained.
Practise mumla
1 / 2Yesterday I … (mumla). Which is the past tense?
mumla in a sentence
- han mumlade ett tack och försvannhe mumbled his thanks and disappeared
Questions
What does mumla mean in English?
mumla means “mumble”.
What is the past tense of mumla?
The past tense of mumla is mumlade (“jag mumlade”). The supine is mumlat, used in “jag har mumlat”.
What is the present tense of mumla?
mumlar, the same for every person: jag mumlar, du mumlar, vi mumlar.
Origin
Inherited from Old Swedish mumbla, from Middle Low German mummelen, originally onomatopoeic.
Nearby common words
mumla is number 8,547 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
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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