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offra

sacrifice

Meaning

sacrifice

In Swedish: lämna ifrån sig (något värdefullt) för en god sak

Conjugation

Conjugation of offra (sacrifice)
Infinitive	att offra	to sacrifice
Present	offrar	jag offrar
Past	offrade	jag offrade
Supine	offrat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har offrat	jag har offrat
Past perfect	hade offrat	jag hade offrat
Future	ska offra	or: kommer att offra
Conditional	skulle offra	jag skulle offra
Imperative	offra!	a command
Present participle	offrande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	offrad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of offra
Infinitive	offras
Present	offras
Past	offrades
Supine	offrats

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 offrar. See the four verb groups explained.

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offra in a sentence

offra livet
give one's life
offra tid och pengar på sina intressen
spend time and money on one's interests
offra sig för familjen
sacrifice oneself for one's family
Till solen offrades en vit ren.
To the sun a white reindeer was sacrificed.
Hunden Kita offrade sitt liv för att rädda poliserna.
The dog Kita gave her life to save the policemen.
Jag har offrat sömn för att se "bara ett avsnitt till".
I have given up sleep to see "just one more episode".
Läkarna offrades när Talin behövde en fiende.
Physicians were blamed/punished when Talin needed an enemy.

Questions

What does offra mean in English?

offra means “sacrifice”.

What is the past tense of offra?

The past tense of offra is offrade (“jag offrade”). The supine is offrat, used in “jag har offrat”.

What is the present tense of offra?

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

Nearby common words

offra is number 1,355 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,351nåd mercy, grace
1,352bröt broke
1,353skott shot, charge
1,354verklig real
1,356normal normal, usual
1,357tolv twelve
1,358fria propose, acquit
1,359ägg egg, ovum

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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