Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

sjunka

go down, sink, fall, drop/ˈɧɵŋːˌka/

Meaning

go down; sink; fall; drop; subside; do down

In Swedish: gå mot botten

Conjugation

Conjugation of sjunka (go down)
Infinitive	att sjunka	to go down
Present	sjunker	jag sjunker
Past	sjönk	jag sjönk
Supine	sjunkit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har sjunkit	jag har sjunkit
Past perfect	hade sjunkit	jag hade sjunkit
Future	ska sjunka	or: kommer att sjunka
Conditional	skulle sjunka	jag skulle sjunka
Imperative	sjunk!	a command
Present participle	sjunkande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	sjunken	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of sjunka
Infinitive	sjunkas
Present	sjunks
Past	sjönks
Supine	sjunkits

Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use sjunker. See the four verb groups explained.

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sjunka in a sentence

fartyget sjönk strax utanför kusten
the ship went down somewhere off the coast
han sjönk ihop på golvet
he sank to the floor
grundvattnet sjunker
the water table is sinking
priserna på aktier sjönk under måndagen
share prices fell on Monday
sjunkande ålder för rökdebuten
drop in the age at which youngsters start smoking
Skeppet sjunker
The ship is sinking
Inflationen har sjunkit mer än förväntat
Inflation has gone down more than expected
Jag sjönk ihop på golvet
I collapsed onto the floor

Questions

What does sjunka mean in English?

sjunka means “go down, sink”.

What is the past tense of sjunka?

The past tense of sjunka is sjönk (“jag sjönk”). The supine is sjunkit, used in “jag har sjunkit”.

What is the present tense of sjunka?

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

Similar words

säcka

Origin

From Old Swedish siunka, from Old East Norse *siunkua, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).

Nearby common words

sjunka is number 2,147 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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2,149hejdå alternative form of hej då (“bye”)
2,150brottsplats Crime scene, crime scene
2,151rån wafer, robbery

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