Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

spola

flush, wash, rinse, sluice

Meaning

flush; wash; rinse; sluice; chuck, reject; wind

In Swedish: skölja, spruta (vatten) (på)

Conjugation

Conjugation of spola (flush)
Infinitive	att spola	to flush
Present	spolar	jag spolar
Past	spolade	jag spolade
Supine	spolat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har spolat	jag har spolat
Past perfect	hade spolat	jag hade spolat
Future	ska spola	or: kommer att spola
Conditional	skulle spola	jag skulle spola
Imperative	spola!	a command
Present participle	spolande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	spolad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of spola
Infinitive	spolas
Present	spolas
Past	spolades
Supine	spolats

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 spolar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

spola in a sentence

spola golvet
wash down the floor
spola öronen
wash out one's ears
förslaget spolades genast
the proposal was thrown out at once
hon spolade upp tråden
she wound up the thread
Han spolade av altanen
He hosed off the deck
spola toaletten
flush the toilet
Du glömde spola
You forgot to flush
Vi spolar den idén. Det kommer inte funka.
Let's flush that idea. It won't work.

Questions

What does spola mean in English?

spola means “flush, wash”.

What is the past tense of spola?

The past tense of spola is spolade (“jag spolade”). The supine is spolat, used in “jag har spolat”.

What is the present tense of spola?

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

Similar words

kassera

Origin

Probably from Middle Low German spölen, from Old Saxon spōlian, from Proto-West Germanic *spōlijan.

Nearby common words

spola is number 2,892 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,888handske glove
2,889körkort a driver's license (document giving a person legal right to drive a type of motor vehicle)
2,890jisses alternative form of jösses
2,891jätte giant
2,893mm mm
2,894begära ask, request
2,895puss kiss, puddle
2,896juni June

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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