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skämta

joke, jest

Meaning

joke, jest

In Swedish: säga lustigheter, skoja

Conjugation

Conjugation of skämta (joke)
Infinitive	att skämta	to joke
Present	skämtar	jag skämtar
Past	skämtade	jag skämtade
Supine	skämtat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skämtat	jag har skämtat
Past perfect	hade skämtat	jag hade skämtat
Future	ska skämta	or: kommer att skämta
Conditional	skulle skämta	jag skulle skämta
Imperative	skämta!	a command
Present participle	skämtande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of skämta
Infinitive	skämtas
Present	skämtas
Past	skämtades
Supine	skämtats

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 skämtar. See the four verb groups explained.

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skämta in a sentence

Jag skämtade bara!
I was only joking!

Expressions

skämta med ("driva med") byråkratin
poke fun at ("make jokes about") bureaucracy

Questions

What does skämta mean in English?

skämta means “joke, jest”.

What is the past tense of skämta?

The past tense of skämta is skämtade (“jag skämtade”). The supine is skämtat, used in “jag har skämtat”.

What is the present tense of skämta?

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

Similar words

skojavitsa

Origin

From Old Norse skemta, from either Proto-Germanic *skammatjaną or Proto-Germanic *skammitōną.

Nearby common words

skämta is number 986 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

982hjälte hero
983slippa be let off, avoid
984henry henry (unit of inductance)
985minst least, at least
987grattis congratulations
988mobil mobile
989ers your (only in address); a contraction of the archaic eders, being a genitive form of er
990bränna incinerate, burn

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