Swedish verb

namnge

to name (give a name (to)), to name (give the name(s) (of))

Meaning

to name (give a name (to)); to name (give the name(s) (of))

Conjugation

Conjugation of namnge (name)
Infinitive	att namnge	to name
Present	namnger	jag namnger
Past	namngav	jag namngav
Supine	namngivit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har namngivit	jag har namngivit
Past perfect	hade namngivit	jag hade namngivit
Future	ska namnge	or: kommer att namnge
Conditional	skulle namnge	jag skulle namnge
Imperative	namnge!	a command
Present participle	namngivande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	namngiven	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of namnge
Infinitive	namnges
Present	namngs
Past	namngavs
Supine	namngivits

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 namnger. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise namnge

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

namnge in a sentence

Staden är namngiven efter sin grundare
The city is named after its founder
De misstänkta namngavs i nyhetsartikeln
The suspects were named in the news article

Questions

What does namnge mean in English?

namnge means “to name (give a name (to)), to name (give the name(s) (of))”.

What is the past tense of namnge?

The past tense of namnge is namngav (“jag namngav”). The supine is namngivit, used in “jag har namngivit”.

What is the present tense of namnge?

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

Origin

namn + ge

Nearby common words

namnge is number 6,677 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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6,673visserligen certainly
6,674överst uppermost, on top
6,675flygfält airfield
6,678bikta confess, hear (somebody's) confession
6,679arbetsplats workplace
6,680inspektion inspection, authority
6,681orörd untouched

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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