Swedish verb

paddla

paddle

Meaning

paddle

In Swedish: driva fram i vattnet med hjälp av paddel

Conjugation

Conjugation of paddla (paddle)
Infinitive	att paddla	to paddle
Present	paddlar	jag paddlar
Past	paddlade	jag paddlade
Supine	paddlat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har paddlat	jag har paddlat
Past perfect	hade paddlat	jag hade paddlat
Future	ska paddla	or: kommer att paddla
Conditional	skulle paddla	jag skulle paddla
Imperative	paddla!	a command
Present participle	paddlande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	paddlad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of paddla
Infinitive	paddlas
Present	paddlas
Past	paddlades
Supine	paddlats

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 paddlar. See the four verb groups explained.

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paddla in a sentence

paddla kanot
paddle a canoe

Questions

What does paddla mean in English?

paddla means “paddle”.

What is the past tense of paddla?

The past tense of paddla is paddlade (“jag paddlade”). The supine is paddlat, used in “jag har paddlat”.

What is the present tense of paddla?

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

Origin

Borrowed from English paddle, with the suffix + -a.

Nearby common words

paddla is number 7,989 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

7,985makalös incomparable, peerless
7,986föregå precede
7,987ströp strangled
7,988utnyttjad abjused
7,990tordas dare
7,991töras to dare (have the courage to do a thing)
7,992nyans shade, nuance
7,993sinom only used in i sinom tid

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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