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spilla

spill

Meaning

spill

In Swedish: hälla ut av misstag

Conjugation

Conjugation of spilla (spill)
Infinitive	att spilla	to spill
Present	spiller	jag spiller
Past	spillde	jag spillde
Supine	spillt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har spillt	jag har spillt
Past perfect	hade spillt	jag hade spillt
Future	ska spilla	or: kommer att spilla
Conditional	skulle spilla	jag skulle spilla
Imperative	spill!	a command
Present participle	spillande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	spilld	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of spilla
Infinitive	spillas
Present	spills
Past	spilldes
Supine	spillts

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 spiller. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise spilla

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

spilla in a sentence

hon spillde sås på duken
she spilled sauce on the cloth
Man ska inte gråta över spilld mjölk
Don't cry over spilled milk

Questions

What does spilla mean in English?

spilla means “spill”.

What is the past tense of spilla?

The past tense of spilla is spillde (“jag spillde”). The supine is spillt, used in “jag har spillt”.

What is the present tense of spilla?

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

Similar words

ödsla

Origin

From Old Swedish spilla, from Old Norse spilla, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).

Nearby common words

spilla is number 3,238 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,234me apocopic form of med (“with”)
3,235piano piano
3,236strumpa stocking, sock
3,237delstat federated state; a state in a federation.
3,239utifrån from outside
3,240mån degree
3,241antyda hint, suggest
3,242efternamn surname, family (last) name

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