Swedish verb· top 2,000 most common

skaka

shake; agitate, shake, tremble, quiver

Meaning

shake; agitate; shake; tremble; quiver; vibrate

In Swedish: ruska

Conjugation

Conjugation of skaka (shake)
Infinitive	att skaka	to shake
Present	skakar	jag skakar
Past	skakade	jag skakade
Supine	skakat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skakat	jag har skakat
Past perfect	hade skakat	jag hade skakat
Future	ska skaka	or: kommer att skaka
Conditional	skulle skaka	jag skulle skaka
Imperative	skaka!	a command
Present participle	skakande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	skakad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of skaka
Infinitive	skakas
Present	skakas
Past	skakades
Supine	skakats

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 skakar. See the four verb groups explained.

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skaka in a sentence

skaka sängkläder
shake out the bedclothes
skaka på huvudet
shake one's head
skaka av köld
tremble with cold
marken skakar när tåget far förbi
the ground shakes whenever a train passes by

Questions

What does skaka mean in English?

skaka means “shake; agitate, shake”.

What is the past tense of skaka?

The past tense of skaka is skakade (“jag skakade”). The supine is skakat, used in “jag har skakat”.

What is the present tense of skaka?

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

Similar words

ruskaskälvadarravibrera

Origin

From Old Swedish skaka, from Old Norse skaka (“to shake”), from Proto-Germanic *skakaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to shake, stir”).

Nearby common words

skaka is number 1,588 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,584våld violence
1,585kurs course, rate
1,586märke mark, trace
1,587tagen moved; tired out
1,589blind blind
1,590tänder teeth
1,591enhet unit
1,592snubbe chap, fellow

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary