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mura

build (a wall) of brick

Meaning

build (a wall) of brick

In Swedish: sammanfoga (en mur) med stenar och murbruk

Conjugation

Conjugation of mura (build)
Infinitive	att mura	to build
Present	murar	jag murar
Past	murade	jag murade
Supine	murat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har murat	jag har murat
Past perfect	hade murat	jag hade murat
Future	ska mura	or: kommer att mura
Conditional	skulle mura	jag skulle mura
Imperative	mura!	a command
Present participle	murande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	murad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of mura
Infinitive	muras
Present	muras
Past	murades
Supine	murats

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 murar. See the four verb groups explained.

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mura in a sentence

mura igen/för
brick up
mura in
immure
mura fast
fix in position with bricks and/or mortar
en murad skorsten
a brick chimney

Questions

What does mura mean in English?

mura means “build (a wall) of brick”.

What is the past tense of mura?

The past tense of mura is murade (“jag murade”). The supine is murat, used in “jag har murat”.

What is the present tense of mura?

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

Origin

mur (“(free-standing) wall, brick”) + -a

Nearby common words

mura is number 3,943 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,939hopa jump, heaping
3,940vicepresident vice president
3,941klev climbed, strode
3,942id ide; a fish, Leuciscus idus
3,944potential potential
3,945stressad stressed
3,946syfta aim
3,947måltavla a target (shooting target), a target (something (easily) attacked, concretely or abstractly)

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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