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röka

smoke

röka as a verb

Meaning

smoke

In Swedish: suga in tobaksrök

Conjugation

Conjugation of röka (smoke)
Infinitive	att röka	to smoke
Present	röker	jag röker
Past	rökte	jag rökte
Supine	rökt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har rökt	jag har rökt
Past perfect	hade rökt	jag hade rökt
Future	ska röka	or: kommer att röka
Conditional	skulle röka	jag skulle röka
Imperative	rök!	a command
Present participle	rökande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	rökt	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of röka
Infinitive	rökas
Present	röks
Past	röktes
Supine	rökts

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 röker. See the four verb groups explained.

röka as a noun(ett röka)

Meaning

a recreational drug that's smoked, particularly cannabis

Forms

Forms of röka
Singular, indefinite	ett röka
Singular, definite	rökat
Plural, indefinite	röka
Plural, definite	rökan

röka is an ett-word, so adjectives agree with it: ett stort röka, det stora rökat. Check another noun

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röka in a sentence

hon röker ett paket (cigarretter) om dagen
she smokes a packet (of cigarettes) a day
rökt korv
smoked sausage
röka en cigarett
smoke a cigarette
röka cigarr
smoke a cigar ["smoke cigar" – idiomatic]
röka pipa
smoke a pipe ["smoke pipe" – idiomatic]
röka gräs
smoke weed
Röker du?
Do you smoke?

Questions

What does röka mean in English?

röka means “smoke”.

Is it en röka or ett röka?

It is ett röka, and “the a recreational drug that's smoked” is rökat.

What is the plural of röka?

röka doesn't change in the plural: ett röka, två röka (definite: rökan).

What is the past tense of röka?

The past tense of röka is rökte (“jag rökte”). The supine is rökt, used in “jag har rökt”.

What is the present tense of röka?

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

Similar words

blossa

Origin

From Old Swedish rø̄kia, from Old Norse reykja, from Proto-Germanic *raukijaną.

Nearby common words

röka is number 1,094 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,090hette was called (named)
1,091begå commit, perpetrate
1,092föda give birth to, feed
1,093fira celebrate, shirk, truant
1,095träff date, meeting
1,096väntad expected, anticipated, waited (for)
1,097misstänkt suspicious, shady
1,098tåg train, procession

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