Swedish verb · noun· top 500 most common

resa

travel, raise, put up, bring up

resa as a verb

Meaning

travel; raise; put up; bring up

In Swedish: göra en resa, åka, fara, färdas

Conjugation

Conjugation of resa (travel)
Infinitive	att resa	to travel
Present	reser	jag reser
Past	reste	jag reste
Supine	rest	used after har / hade
Perfect	har rest	jag har rest
Past perfect	hade rest	jag hade rest
Future	ska resa	or: kommer att resa
Conditional	skulle resa	jag skulle resa
Imperative	res!	a command
Present participle	resande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	rest	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of resa
Infinitive	resas
Present	reses
Past	restes
Supine	rests

Group 2: -er verbs. Present -er, past -de or -te (after a voiceless consonant), supine -t. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use reser. See the four verb groups explained.

resa as a noun(en resa)

Meaning

journey; trip

In Swedish: förflyttning med färdmedel (t.ex. tåg, bil, båt)

Forms

Forms of resa
Singular, indefinite	en resa
Singular, definite	resan
Plural, indefinite	resor
Plural, definite	resorna

resa is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor resa, den stora resan. Check another noun

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

resa in a sentence

jag reser utomlands på semestern
I travel abroad on my holidays
resa bort
go away
resa (upp) en stege mot väggen
put a ladder up against the wall
resa sig ur stolen
get up from the chair
resa nya krav
put forward (make) new demands
Han reste en runsten
He raised a runestone
De reste ett tält i skogen
They raised a tent in the forest
Res dig (upp)!
Get on your feet!
En resa är man reser
A trip is when you travel
en resa till Spanien
a trip to Spain

Words built with resa

studieresa study trip (tour)
reseskrivmaskin portable (travelling) typewriter
reseskildring account of a journey
resebroschyr travel brochure
resväska suitcase
hemresa journey home
bilresa journey by car

Questions

What does resa mean in English?

resa means “travel, raise”.

Is it en resa or ett resa?

It is en resa, and “the journey” is resan.

What is the plural of resa?

The plural of resa is resor, and the definite plural is resorna.

What is the past tense of resa?

The past tense of resa is reste (“jag reste”). The supine is rest, used in “jag har rest”.

What is the present tense of resa?

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

Similar words

åkafärdfärdasbege sigfarakuska

Where the course teaches it

How to say country names in Swedish
Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

From Middle Low German reisen, from Old Saxon *reisa, from Proto-West Germanic *raisu.

Nearby common words

resa is number 411 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

407tillsammans together, in all
408våran our
409lugnt calm
410idé idea, point
412sitta be seated (sitting), sit
413lära teach, learn
414svara reply, answer
415släpp release

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