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skåla

drink to [sby's health], toast

Meaning

drink to [sby's health]; toast

In Swedish: säga skål

Conjugation

Conjugation of skåla (drink to [sby's health])
Infinitive	att skåla	to drink to [sby's health]
Present	skålar	jag skålar
Past	skålade	jag skålade
Supine	skålat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skålat	jag har skålat
Past perfect	hade skålat	jag hade skålat
Future	ska skåla	or: kommer att skåla
Conditional	skulle skåla	jag skulle skåla
Imperative	skåla!	a command
Present participle	skålande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	skålad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of skåla
Infinitive	skålas
Present	skålas
Past	skålades
Supine	skålats

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 skålar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise skåla

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

skåla in a sentence

De skålade
They toasted

Questions

What does skåla mean in English?

skåla means “drink to [sby's health], toast”.

What is the past tense of skåla?

The past tense of skåla is skålade (“jag skålade”). The supine is skålat, used in “jag har skålat”.

What is the present tense of skåla?

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

Origin

skål + -a

Nearby common words

skåla is number 3,460 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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3,457därefter afterward, then
3,458psykopat psychopath
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3,461syre oxygen
3,462strypa choke, strangle
3,463repa scratch, score
3,464jasså alternative form of jaså

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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