Swedish verb· top 2,000 most common

spränga

explode, blow up, ache

Meaning

explode; blow up; ache

In Swedish: få att explodera

Conjugation

Conjugation of spränga (explode)
Infinitive	att spränga	to explode
Present	spränger	jag spränger
Past	sprängde	jag sprängde
Supine	sprängt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har sprängt	jag har sprängt
Past perfect	hade sprängt	jag hade sprängt
Future	ska spränga	or: kommer att spränga
Conditional	skulle spränga	jag skulle spränga
Imperative	spräng!	a command
Present participle	sprängande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	sprängd	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of spränga
Infinitive	sprängas
Present	sprängs
Past	sprängdes
Supine	sprängts

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 spränger. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise spränga

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

spränga in a sentence

huset sprängdes i luften
the house was blown up
ligan sprängdes av polisen
the gang was busted by the police
det spränger i armen
my arm aches
Vi sprängde fiendens bas med en bomb
We blew up the enemy's base with a bomb
att sprängas i bitar
to be blown to pieces
Bomben sprängs om tio sekunder
The bomb goes off in ten seconds
sprängande huvudvärk
a splitting headache

Words built with spränga

sprängdeg plastic explosive, explosive paste
sprängämne explosive

Questions

What does spränga mean in English?

spränga means “explode, blow up”.

What is the past tense of spränga?

The past tense of spränga is sprängde (“jag sprängde”). The supine is sprängt, used in “jag har sprängt”.

What is the present tense of spränga?

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

Where the course teaches it

Swedish adjectives made from past participles
Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

From Old Swedish sprængia, from Old Norse sprengja, from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *springaną.

Nearby common words

spränga is number 1,264 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,259mörker darkness
1,261kök kitchen, stove
1,262led suffered
1,263öppen open, frank
1,265golv floor
1,266krossa crush
1,267likna resemble
1,268klippa cut

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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