Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

plugga

plug, swot, study, cram

Meaning

plug; swot; study; cram

In Swedish: sätta plugg i (hål)

Conjugation

Conjugation of plugga (plug)
Infinitive	att plugga	to plug
Present	pluggar	jag pluggar
Past	pluggade	jag pluggade
Supine	pluggat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har pluggat	jag har pluggat
Past perfect	hade pluggat	jag hade pluggat
Future	ska plugga	or: kommer att plugga
Conditional	skulle plugga	jag skulle plugga
Imperative	plugga!	a command
Present participle	pluggande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of plugga
Infinitive	pluggas
Present	pluggas
Past	pluggades
Supine	pluggats

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 pluggar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

plugga in a sentence

hålet pluggades igen
the hole was plugged (filled-in)
hon pluggar till lärare
she is training (studying) to be a teacher
Var pluggar du?
Where do you study? What school do you attend?
Jag pluggar inför provet på måndag
I'm reading up for my test next Monday
Författaren fick tillfälle att plugga för sin nya bok
The writer got a chance to promote her new book

Words built with plugga

pluggmassa filling compound

Questions

What does plugga mean in English?

plugga means “plug, swot”.

What is the past tense of plugga?

The past tense of plugga is pluggade (“jag pluggade”). The supine is pluggat, used in “jag har pluggat”.

What is the present tense of plugga?

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

Similar words

studerastuderar

Nearby common words

plugga is number 2,521 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,517såvida in case, if
2,518svartsjuk jealous
2,519stulit stolen
2,520växt plant, growth
2,522återgå return, go back
2,523allas everybody's; genitive singular of alla
2,524direktör director
2,525schyst good, fair

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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