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rasa

collapse, rampage

Meaning

collapse; rampage

In Swedish: störta samman (och förstöras)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rasa (collapse)
Infinitive	att rasa	to collapse
Present	rasar	jag rasar
Past	rasade	jag rasade
Supine	rasat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har rasat	jag har rasat
Past perfect	hade rasat	jag hade rasat
Future	ska rasa	or: kommer att rasa
Conditional	skulle rasa	jag skulle rasa
Imperative	rasa!	a command
Present participle	rasande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of rasa
Infinitive	rasas
Present	rasas
Past	rasades
Supine	rasats

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 rasar. See the four verb groups explained.

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rasa in a sentence

hela hennes värld rasade samman
her whole world fell apart (collapsed)
bron kan rasa
the bridge may collapse
stormen rasar
the storm is raging
Muren rasade
The wall collapsed
Huset rasade samman
The house collapsed
Taket rasade in
The ceiling fell in
Livet rasade samman
His life fell apart (figuratively)
Traktorn rasade nedför slänten
The tractor fell down the slope

Questions

What does rasa mean in English?

rasa means “collapse, rampage”.

What is the past tense of rasa?

The past tense of rasa is rasade (“jag rasade”). The supine is rasat, used in “jag har rasat”.

What is the present tense of rasa?

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

Similar words

falla ihopbli arg

Origin

From Old Norse rasa.

Nearby common words

rasa is number 2,785 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,780lapp patch, notecard
2,781målning painting
2,782tjock thick
2,783sand sand
2,786samling gathering, collection
2,787service service, overhaul
2,788tönt dolt
2,790sjutton seventeen

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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