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skada

hurt, injure, damage, impair

skada as a verb

Meaning

hurt; injure; damage; impair; harm; be detrimental to; prejudice

In Swedish: göra illa, såra

Conjugation

Conjugation of skada (hurt)
Infinitive	att skada	to hurt
Present	skadar	jag skadar
Past	skadade	jag skadade
Supine	skadat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skadat	jag har skadat
Past perfect	hade skadat	jag hade skadat
Future	ska skada	or: kommer att skada
Conditional	skulle skada	jag skulle skada
Imperative	skada!	a command
Present participle	skadande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	skadad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of skada
Infinitive	skadas
Present	skadas
Past	skadades
Supine	skadats

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 skadar. See the four verb groups explained.

skada as a noun(en skada)

Meaning

injury, hurt; damage; harm; loss; detriment; pity

In Swedish: förstörelse på person el. sak, sår, åverkan

Forms

Forms of skada
Singular, indefinite	en skada
Singular, definite	skadan
Plural, indefinite	skador
Plural, definite	skadorna

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

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skada in a sentence

ett svårt skadat djur
a badly wounded animal
hon har skadat sig i foten
she's hurt her foot
hennes anseende skadades
her reputation was damaged
stormen vållade svåra skador på de nyplanterade träden
the storm caused considerable damage to the newly planted trees
han tycks inte ha tagit någon större skada
he doesn't seem to have been very badly hurt
det är skada att hon inte kan komma
it's a pity she can't come

Expressions

det skadar inte att ("man kan gott") försöka igen
it won't hurt ("it would be worth") trying again

Words built with skada

personskada bodily injury
skadeverkning damage
brännskada burn

Questions

What does skada mean in English?

skada means “hurt, injure”.

Is it en skada or ett skada?

It is en skada, and “the injury” is skadan.

What is the plural of skada?

The plural of skada is skador, and the definite plural is skadorna.

What is the past tense of skada?

The past tense of skada is skadade (“jag skadade”). The supine is skadat, used in “jag har skadat”.

What is the present tense of skada?

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

Similar words

blessyrmenförödelse

Origin

From Old Swedish skaþi, from Old Norse skaði, from Proto-Germanic *skaþô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t-.

Nearby common words

skada is number 431 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

427heller nor, neither
428rolig funny
429fara go
430mellan between
432ifrån from
433timme an hour (time period of sixty minutes), an hour (of the day)
434senare later, latter; related to or being the second of two items
435lilla small

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