Swedish verb· top 1,000 most common

skaffa

get, get hold of, obtain, procure, find; furnish, provide, do

Meaning

get, get hold of, obtain, procure, find; furnish, provide; do

In Swedish: ordna (fram), få fram

Conjugation

Conjugation of skaffa (get)
Infinitive	att skaffa	to get
Present	skaffar	jag skaffar
Past	skaffade	jag skaffade
Supine	skaffat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skaffat	jag har skaffat
Past perfect	hade skaffat	jag hade skaffat
Future	ska skaffa	or: kommer att skaffa
Conditional	skulle skaffa	jag skulle skaffa
Imperative	skaffa!	a command
Present participle	skaffande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	skaffad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of skaffa
Infinitive	skaffas
Present	skaffas
Past	skaffades
Supine	skaffats

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 skaffar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

skaffa in a sentence

bokhandeln skaffade fram min beställning
the bookshop got me the books I'd ordered
skaffa arbete
find a job
hon skaffade sig en cykel
she got hold of a bike
hon ville inte ha något att skaffa med det
she refused to have anything to do with it
skaffa ny dator
get a new computer
skaffa en tatuering
get a tattoo
skaffa fram uppgifter
obtain information
Jag vill inte ha med honom att skaffa
I want nothing to do with him

Questions

What does skaffa mean in English?

skaffa means “get, get hold of, obtain, procure, find; furnish, provide, do”.

What is the past tense of skaffa?

The past tense of skaffa is skaffade (“jag skaffade”). The supine is skaffat, used in “jag har skaffat”.

What is the present tense of skaffa?

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

Similar words

införskaffabringaframbringauppbringa

Origin

From Old Swedish skaffa, from Middle High German schaffen, from Old High German scaffan (from scepfen, from Proto-West Germanic *skappjan.

Nearby common words

skaffa is number 651 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

647bok book, beech
648säng bed
649skapa create, cause
650kontor office
652byta exchange, change
653misstag mistake
654gömma conceal, hide
655synd pity, shame

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