representera
Meaning
represent
In Swedish: vara representant för
Conjugation
| Infinitive | att representera | to represent |
|---|---|---|
| Present | representerar | jag representerar |
| Past | representerade | jag representerade |
| Supine | representerat | used after har / hade |
| Perfect | har representerat | jag har representerat |
| Past perfect | hade representerat | jag hade representerat |
| Future | ska representera | or: kommer att representera |
| Conditional | skulle representera | jag skulle representera |
| Imperative | representera! | a command |
| Present participle | representerande | -ing, used as an adjective |
| Past participle | representerad | used like an adjective, and agrees like one |
Passive (-s form)
| Infinitive | representeras |
|---|---|
| Present | representeras |
| Past | representerades |
| Supine | representerats |
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 representerar. See the four verb groups explained.
Practise representera
1 / 2Yesterday I … (representera). Which is the past tense?
representera in a sentence
- hon representerar mitt kvinnoidealshe's my kind of woman all over
- representera en stor folkgrupprepresent a large ethnic group
Questions
What does representera mean in English?
representera means “represent”.
What is the past tense of representera?
The past tense of representera is representerade (“jag representerade”). The supine is representerat, used in “jag har representerat”.
What is the present tense of representera?
representerar, the same for every person: jag representerar, du representerar, vi representerar.
Similar words
Origin
Derived from Latin repraesentō.
Nearby common words
representera is number 2,508 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
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