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pågå

be going on

Meaning

be going on

In Swedish: hålla på

Conjugation

Conjugation of pågå (be going on)
Infinitive	att pågå	to be going on
Present	pågår	jag pågår
Past	pågick	jag pågick
Supine	pågått	used after har / hade
Perfect	har pågått	jag har pågått
Past perfect	hade pågått	jag hade pågått
Future	ska pågå	or: kommer att pågå
Conditional	skulle pågå	jag skulle pågå
Imperative	pågå!	a command
Present participle	pågående	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of pågå
Infinitive	pågås
Present	pågås
Past	pågicks
Supine	pågåtts

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 pågår. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise pågå

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

pågå in a sentence

den pågående utbyggnaden
the extension work in progress
förhandlingar pågick hela dagen
the negotiations went on all day

Questions

What does pågå mean in English?

pågå means “be going on”.

What is the past tense of pågå?

The past tense of pågå is pågick (“jag pågick”). The supine is pågått, used in “jag har pågått”.

What is the present tense of pågå?

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

Similar words

hålla påförsiggålöpafortskrida

Nearby common words

pågå is number 1,213 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,209dött died
1,210strid fight
1,211program programme, program (US)
1,212vis way
1,214låda box
1,215uppgift information, task
1,216finger finger
1,217helig holy

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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