Swedish verb

nosa

sniff

Meaning

sniff

In Swedish: lukta

Conjugation

Conjugation of nosa (sniff)
Infinitive	att nosa	to sniff
Present	nosar	jag nosar
Past	nosade	jag nosade
Supine	nosat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har nosat	jag har nosat
Past perfect	hade nosat	jag hade nosat
Future	ska nosa	or: kommer att nosa
Conditional	skulle nosa	jag skulle nosa
Imperative	nosa!	a command
Present participle	nosande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	nosad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of nosa
Infinitive	nosas
Present	nosas
Past	nosades
Supine	nosats

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 nosar. See the four verb groups explained.

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nosa in a sentence

Låt bli att nosa i mina papper!
Stop sniffing about (poking your nose into) in my papers!
Hunden nosade på honom
The dog sniffed him
nosa i andras affärer
go snooping in other people's business

Questions

What does nosa mean in English?

nosa means “sniff”.

What is the past tense of nosa?

The past tense of nosa is nosade (“jag nosade”). The supine is nosat, used in “jag har nosat”.

What is the present tense of nosa?

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

Similar words

lukta

Origin

nos + -a

Nearby common words

nosa is number 9,098 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

9,094förstfödd firstborn, a firstborn
9,095mobbad bullied
9,096amok amuck, amok
9,097gylf fly
9,099ding mad, crazy
9,100krisa to suffer a crisis (sometimes hyperbolically)
9,101sjukförsäkring income protection insurance
9,102sarkasm sarcasm (a mode of expression), a sarcasm (an expression in that mode)

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