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skriva

write/²skriːva/

Meaning

write

In Swedish: forma bokstäver, använda skrift

Conjugation

Conjugation of skriva (write)
Infinitive	att skriva	to write
Present	skriver	jag skriver
Past	skrev	jag skrev
Supine	skrivit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skrivit	jag har skrivit
Past perfect	hade skrivit	jag hade skrivit
Future	ska skriva	or: kommer att skriva
Conditional	skulle skriva	jag skulle skriva
Imperative	skriv!	a command
Present participle	skrivande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	skriven	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of skriva
Infinitive	skrivas
Present	skrivs
Past	skrevs
Supine	skrivits

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 skriver. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise skriva

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

skriva in a sentence

barnen lär sig skriva i skolan
children learn to write at school
skriva (på) maskin
type
skriva brev
write letters
skriva uppsats
write an essay
skriva en bok
write a book
skriva ner (el. upp) något på en lapp
write sth. down on a piece of paper
Hon skriver som en kråka.
Her handwriting is not pretty.
Hur snabbt skriver du?
How fast do you type?

Expressions

skriva in sig
enrol oneself
skriva på (el. under)
sign
skriva kontrakt
sign a contract

Questions

What does skriva mean in English?

skriva means “write”.

What is the past tense of skriva?

The past tense of skriva is skrev (“jag skrev”). The supine is skrivit, used in “jag har skrivit”.

What is the present tense of skriva?

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

Similar words

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Where the course teaches it

The Swedish verb att skriva (to write)
Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

From Old Swedish skriva, from Old Norse skrifa, from Proto-Germanic *skrībaną, a late borrowing from Latin scrībō (“write”).

Nearby common words

skriva is number 338 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

334fem five
335ensam lonely, alone
336tills until
337öga eye
339natt night
340nya new
341betala pay
342denna this

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