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sköta

look after, nurse, manage, treat/²ɧøːˌta/

Meaning

look after; nurse; manage; treat; operate; tend; run; deal with

In Swedish: vårda, ge tillsyn

Conjugation

Conjugation of sköta (look after)
Infinitive	att sköta	to look after
Present	sköter	jag sköter
Past	skötte	jag skötte
Supine	skött	used after har / hade
Perfect	har skött	jag har skött
Past perfect	hade skött	jag hade skött
Future	ska sköta	or: kommer att sköta
Conditional	skulle sköta	jag skulle sköta
Imperative	sköt!	a command
Present participle	skötande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	skött	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of sköta
Infinitive	skötas
Present	sköts
Past	sköttes
Supine	skötts

Group 2: -er verbs. Present -er, past -de or -te (after a voiceless consonant), supine -t. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use sköter. See the four verb groups explained.

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sköta in a sentence

sköta (om) sina affärer
attend to one's affairs
sköta sig själv
look after oneself
sköta barn
look after children
Nisse sköter finanserna.
Nisse manages the finances.
Patienten sköts av syster Bengt.
The patient is cared for by sister Bengt.
Han kunde inte sköta sig.
He could not behave. (literally, “he could not take care of himself.”)

Questions

What does sköta mean in English?

sköta means “look after, nurse”.

What is the past tense of sköta?

The past tense of sköta is skötte (“jag skötte”). The supine is skött, used in “jag har skött”.

What is the present tense of sköta?

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

Similar words

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Origin

From Old Swedish sköta, equivalent to sköte + -a.

Nearby common words

sköta is number 764 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

760ned down
761hemskt awfully, terribly
762häst horse
763hemlighet secret
765igång in motion, moving, running
766strax at once, directly
767inför in front of, before; while having the attention of, in preparation for
768leka play

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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