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slippa

be let off, avoid, be excused from, not have to

Meaning

be let off; avoid; be excused from; not have to; escape

In Swedish: inte behöva, komma ifrån (att)

Conjugation

Conjugation of slippa (be let off)
Infinitive	att slippa	to be let off
Present	slipper	jag slipper
Past	slapp	jag slapp
Supine	sluppit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har sluppit	jag har sluppit
Past perfect	hade sluppit	jag hade sluppit
Future	ska slippa	or: kommer att slippa
Conditional	skulle slippa	jag skulle slippa
Imperative	slipp!	a command
Present participle	slippande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	sluppen	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of slippa
Infinitive	slippas
Present	slipps
Past	slapps
Supine	sluppits

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 slipper. See the four verb groups explained.

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slippa in a sentence

slippa undan med blotta förskräckelsen
escape by the skin of one's teeth
slippa (i)från alla bekymmer med matlagningen
get away from the trouble of having to cook meals
hon slapp betala
she didn't have to pay
Jag hoppas vi slipper regn imorgon
I hope we won't get rain tomorrow (I hope we won't have to experience rain tomorrow)
Vi slapp städa köket innan vi åkte
We did not have to clean the kitchen before we left (they let us leave without cleaning / did not force us to clean the kitchen before we left, we got away without cleaning the kitchen before we left – avoided the negative experience of cleaning the kitchen)
Ni slipper städa. Vi fixar det.
You don't have to clean up. We'll take care of it.
Med en T-Ford slipper man åka fortare än 70 km/h
With a Model T Ford, you can't go ("won't have to deal with going") faster than 70 km/h
Lejonet hade sluppit ur sin bur
The lion had slipped out of its cage

Questions

What does slippa mean in English?

slippa means “be let off, avoid”.

What is the past tense of slippa?

The past tense of slippa is slapp (“jag slapp”). The supine is sluppit, used in “jag har sluppit”.

What is the present tense of slippa?

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

Similar words

undfly

Origin

From Old Swedish slippa, from Old Norse sleppa, from or related to Proto-Germanic *slīpaną (“to slide”).

Nearby common words

slippa is number 983 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

979slutet closed
980springa run
981försvann disappeared
982hjälte hero
984henry henry (unit of inductance)
985minst least, at least
986skämta joke, jest
987grattis congratulations

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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