Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

skina

shine, glare, gleam, blaze/ˈɧiːˌna/

Meaning

shine; glare; gleam; blaze

In Swedish: lysa, stråla

Conjugation

Conjugation of skina (shine)
Infinitive	att skina	to shine
Present	skiner	jag skiner
Past	sken	jag sken
Supine	skinit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skinit	jag har skinit
Past perfect	hade skinit	jag hade skinit
Future	ska skina	or: kommer att skina
Conditional	skulle skina	jag skulle skina
Imperative	skin!	a command
Present participle	skinande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of skina
Infinitive	skinas
Present	skins
Past	skens
Supine	skinits

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 skiner. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise skina

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

skina in a sentence

skina av glädje
beam with pleasure
solen sken från en molnfri himmel
the sun glared down from a cloudless sky
en skinande blank kastrull
a shiny bright saucepan

Questions

What does skina mean in English?

skina means “shine, glare”.

What is the past tense of skina?

The past tense of skina is sken (“jag sken”). The supine is skinit, used in “jag har skinit”.

What is the present tense of skina?

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

Similar words

glänsablänkalysastråla

Origin

From Old Swedish skīna, from Old Norse skína, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną.

Nearby common words

skina is number 3,663 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,659användning usage, employment
3,660faktisk real
3,661klinik clinic
3,662blicka glance, look
3,664stadig steady, firm
3,665infektion infection
3,666mikrofon microphone
3,667dimma mist, fog

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