sprida
Meaning
spread
In Swedish: fördela åt olika håll
Conjugation
| Infinitive | att sprida | to spread |
|---|---|---|
| Present | sprider | jag sprider |
| Past | spred | jag spred |
| Supine | spridit | used after har / hade |
| Perfect | har spridit | jag har spridit |
| Past perfect | hade spridit | jag hade spridit |
| Future | ska sprida | or: kommer att sprida |
| Conditional | skulle sprida | jag skulle sprida |
| Imperative | sprid! | a command |
| Present participle | spridande | -ing, used as an adjective |
| Past participle | spriden | used like an adjective, and agrees like one |
Passive (-s form)
| Infinitive | spridas |
|---|---|
| Present | sprids |
| Past | spreds |
| Supine | spridits |
Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use sprider. See the four verb groups explained.
Practise sprida
1 / 2Yesterday I … (sprida). Which is the past tense?
sprida in a sentence
- sprida informationspread information
- oron spred sigthe unrest spread
- sprida gödselspread fertilizer
- med spridda mellanrumat irregular intervals, sporadically
Questions
What does sprida mean in English?
sprida means “spread”.
What is the past tense of sprida?
The past tense of sprida is spred (“jag spred”). The supine is spridit, used in “jag har spridit”.
What is the present tense of sprida?
sprider, the same for every person: jag sprider, du sprider, vi sprider.
Similar words
Origin
From Old Swedish spridha, probably the same word as spredha, from Middle Low German sprēden, spreiden, from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”).
Nearby common words
sprida is number 1,297 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
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