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natta

put children to bed

Meaning

put children to bed

In Swedish: lägga (barn) att sova för natten

Conjugation

Conjugation of natta (put children to bed)
Infinitive	att natta	to put children to bed
Present	nattar	jag nattar
Past	nattade	jag nattade
Supine	nattat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har nattat	jag har nattat
Past perfect	hade nattat	jag hade nattat
Future	ska natta	or: kommer att natta
Conditional	skulle natta	jag skulle natta
Imperative	natta!	a command
Present participle	nattande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	nattad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of natta
Infinitive	nattas
Present	nattas
Past	nattades
Supine	nattats

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 nattar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise natta

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

natta in a sentence

Dags att natta barnen
Time to put the children to bed

Questions

What does natta mean in English?

natta means “put children to bed”.

What is the past tense of natta?

The past tense of natta is nattade (“jag nattade”). The supine is nattat, used in “jag har nattat”.

What is the present tense of natta?

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

Origin

natt (“night”) + -a

Nearby common words

natta is number 1,011 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,007skillnad distinction, divergence
1,008morse morning (in i morse, this morning)
1,009delar parts
1,010rådslå deliberate, consult
1,012hopp skip, leap
1,013hav sea, ocean
1,014farligt dangerous, dangerously
1,015omöjligt impossible, not possible

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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