skratta
Meaning
laugh
In Swedish: ge ifrån sig skratt
Conjugation
| Infinitive | att skratta | to laugh |
|---|---|---|
| Present | skrattar | jag skrattar |
| Past | skrattade | jag skrattade |
| Supine | skrattat | used after har / hade |
| Perfect | har skrattat | jag har skrattat |
| Past perfect | hade skrattat | jag hade skrattat |
| Future | ska skratta | or: kommer att skratta |
| Conditional | skulle skratta | jag skulle skratta |
| Imperative | skratta! | a command |
| Present participle | skrattande | -ing, used as an adjective |
| Past participle | skrattad | used like an adjective, and agrees like one |
Passive (-s form)
| Infinitive | skrattas |
|---|---|
| Present | skrattas |
| Past | skrattades |
| Supine | skrattats |
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 skrattar. See the four verb groups explained.
Practise skratta
1 / 2Yesterday I … (skratta). Which is the past tense?
skratta in a sentence
- de skrattade åt hennes göteborgska dialektthey laughed at her Göteborg accent
- Han skrattade åt det roliga skämtetHe laughed at the funny joke
- Man vet inte om man ska skratta eller gråtaYou don't know whether to laugh or cry
Questions
What does skratta mean in English?
skratta means “laugh”.
What is the past tense of skratta?
The past tense of skratta is skrattade (“jag skrattade”). The supine is skrattat, used in “jag har skrattat”.
What is the present tense of skratta?
skrattar, the same for every person: jag skrattar, du skrattar, vi skrattar.
Similar words
garvaflabba
Origin
An intensive formation from an obsolete skrata (“to scare away by making noise”), itself thought to be a dental extension and variant of a term harka (“to hawk, rasp”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Nearby common words
skratta is number 834 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
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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