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spika

nail

Meaning

nail

In Swedish: fästa med spik, hamra

Conjugation

Conjugation of spika (nail)
Infinitive	att spika	to nail
Present	spikar	jag spikar
Past	spikade	jag spikade
Supine	spikat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har spikat	jag har spikat
Past perfect	hade spikat	jag hade spikat
Future	ska spika	or: kommer att spika
Conditional	skulle spika	jag skulle spika
Imperative	spika!	a command
Present participle	spikande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	spikad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of spika
Infinitive	spikas
Present	spikas
Past	spikades
Supine	spikats

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 spikar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

spika in a sentence

spika ihop en låda
nail a box together
spika upp en hylla
nail up a shelf
spika med en hammare
drive nails with a hammer
spika fast stolarna i golvet
nail [drive-nails fast/fixed] the chairs to the floor
spika upp en anslagstavla på väggen
nail [drive-nails up] a bulletin board to the wall
Grannens spikande väckte mig
My neighbor's hammering woke me up
Vi har inte spikat semesterplanerna än
We haven't nailed down the vacation plans yet

Expressions

dagordningen är redan spikad
the agenda has already been decided

Questions

What does spika mean in English?

spika means “nail”.

What is the past tense of spika?

The past tense of spika is spikade (“jag spikade”). The supine is spikat, used in “jag har spikat”.

What is the present tense of spika?

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

Similar words

fastslå

Origin

spik + -a

Nearby common words

spika is number 4,396 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

4,392bonus bonus
4,393fjäril butterfly
4,394höjdare bigwig
4,395sannerligen indeed, really; certainly
4,397ödsla waste
4,398genomgå undergo, live through
4,399förföra seduce
4,400klå beat, trash

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