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reagera

react

Meaning

react

In Swedish: handla som svar på en upplevelse

Conjugation

Conjugation of reagera (react)
Infinitive	att reagera	to react
Present	reagerar	jag reagerar
Past	reagerade	jag reagerade
Supine	reagerat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har reagerat	jag har reagerat
Past perfect	hade reagerat	jag hade reagerat
Future	ska reagera	or: kommer att reagera
Conditional	skulle reagera	jag skulle reagera
Imperative	reagera!	a command
Present participle	reagerande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of reagera
Infinitive	reageras
Present	reageras
Past	reagerades
Supine	reagerats

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 reagerar. See the four verb groups explained.

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reagera in a sentence

ingen reagerade på provokationerna
no one reacted in the face of the provocations
reagera mot utsugningen
react to the exploitation
reagera ilsket
react angrily

Questions

What does reagera mean in English?

reagera means “react”.

What is the past tense of reagera?

The past tense of reagera is reagerade (“jag reagerade”). The supine is reagerat, used in “jag har reagerat”.

What is the present tense of reagera?

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

Origin

re- + agera

Nearby common words

reagera is number 2,039 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,034fjärde fourth
2,035tavla picture, painting
2,037rättegång a trial
2,038mörka to hide; to perform a cover-up
2,040snarare if anything, rather
2,041sno wind, twist
2,042söta sweeten
2,043konto account

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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