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räkna

calculate, count

Meaning

calculate; count

In Swedish: göra matematiska uträkningar

Conjugation

Conjugation of räkna (calculate)
Infinitive	att räkna	to calculate
Present	räknar	jag räknar
Past	räknade	jag räknade
Supine	räknat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har räknat	jag har räknat
Past perfect	hade räknat	jag hade räknat
Future	ska räkna	or: kommer att räkna
Conditional	skulle räkna	jag skulle räkna
Imperative	räkna!	a command
Present participle	räknande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	räknad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of räkna
Infinitive	räknas
Present	räknas
Past	räknades
Supine	räknats

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 räknar. See the four verb groups explained.

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räkna in a sentence

räkna ut något i huvudet
do mental arithmetic
räknat i pengar blir det ganska mycket
that will amount to quite a lot of money
fröken räknade barnen i klassen
the teacher counted the children in her class
hon räknade upp (angav i tur och ordning) alla mina fel
she enumerated (stated in order) all my faults
jag kan räkna till 100
I can count to 100
jag räknar det som en stor ära
I count it as a great honour
räkna med (att det blir) bråk
count on (there being) trouble
Kan du räkna till hundra?
Can you count to a hundred?

Questions

What does räkna mean in English?

räkna means “calculate, count”.

What is the past tense of räkna?

The past tense of räkna is räknade (“jag räknade”). The supine is räknat, used in “jag har räknat”.

What is the present tense of räkna?

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

Similar words

kalkylera

Origin

Inherited from Old Swedish rækna, from Late Old Norse reikna, which is borrowed from Middle Low German rekenen.

Nearby common words

räkna is number 716 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

712förtjäna deserve, earn
713egentligen actually, really
714ofta often
715skepp vessel, ship
717höll kept, held, grasped, gripped, lasted
718otroligt incredibly
719skall will, shall, must, have to
720missa miss

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary