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spionera

spy

Meaning

spy

In Swedish: ägna sig åt spioneri

Conjugation

Conjugation of spionera (spy)
Infinitive	att spionera	to spy
Present	spionerar	jag spionerar
Past	spionerade	jag spionerade
Supine	spionerat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har spionerat	jag har spionerat
Past perfect	hade spionerat	jag hade spionerat
Future	ska spionera	or: kommer att spionera
Conditional	skulle spionera	jag skulle spionera
Imperative	spionera!	a command
Present participle	spionerande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	spionerad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of spionera
Infinitive	spioneras
Present	spioneras
Past	spionerades
Supine	spionerats

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 spionerar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise spionera

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

spionera in a sentence

hon spionerade på mig bakom rullgardinen
she spied on me from behind the blind

Questions

What does spionera mean in English?

spionera means “spy”.

What is the past tense of spionera?

The past tense of spionera is spionerade (“jag spionerade”). The supine is spionerat, used in “jag har spionerat”.

What is the present tense of spionera?

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

Origin

spion + -era

Nearby common words

spionera is number 4,155 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

4,151patrull patrol
4,152ändring change
4,153yra whirl, be delirious
4,154kommendörkapten a commander (in the navy)
4,156fjol only used in i fjol (“last year”)
4,157såld done for
4,158sås sauce
4,159tragisk tragic

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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