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spruta

spray, spurt, squirt/²sprʉːta/

spruta as a verb

Meaning

spray; spurt; squirt

In Swedish: fara ut i strålar

Conjugation

Conjugation of spruta (spray)
Infinitive	att spruta	to spray
Present	sprutar	jag sprutar
Past	sprutade	jag sprutade
Supine	sprutat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har sprutat	jag har sprutat
Past perfect	hade sprutat	jag hade sprutat
Future	ska spruta	or: kommer att spruta
Conditional	skulle spruta	jag skulle spruta
Imperative	spruta!	a command
Present participle	sprutande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	sprutad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of spruta
Infinitive	sprutas
Present	sprutas
Past	sprutades
Supine	sprutats

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 sprutar. See the four verb groups explained.

spruta as a noun(en spruta)

Meaning

syringe

In Swedish: ett redskap att spruta med

Forms

Forms of spruta
Singular, indefinite	en spruta
Singular, definite	sprutan
Plural, indefinite	sprutor
Plural, definite	sprutorna

spruta is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor spruta, den stora sprutan. Check another noun

Practise spruta

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

spruta in a sentence

vattnet sprutade ur röret
the water spurted out of the pipe
spruta gift över banvallarna
spray the railway embankments with poison
medicinen sprutas in direkt i blodet
the medicine is injected straight into the bloodstream
spruta vatten på någon med en slang
spray water on someone with a hose
spruta med en vattenpistol
squirt with a water gun
gråta så att tårarna sprutar
cry one's eyes out ["cry so that the tears spray" – idiomatic]
Blodet sprutade åt alla håll
Blood was spraying in all directions
vattenspruta
water sprayer [generic, like in English]
brandspruta
fire engine [including older and non-vehicle equipment – compare brandbil (“fire truck”)]
sprutor på en bricka
syringes on a tray

Words built with spruta

idéspruta source of ideas
injektionsspruta injection
brandspruta fire engine

Questions

What does spruta mean in English?

spruta means “spray, spurt”.

Is it en spruta or ett spruta?

It is en spruta, and “the syringe” is sprutan.

What is the plural of spruta?

The plural of spruta is sprutor, and the definite plural is sprutorna.

What is the past tense of spruta?

The past tense of spruta is sprutade (“jag sprutade”). The supine is sprutat, used in “jag har sprutat”.

What is the present tense of spruta?

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

Similar words

injektionsspruta

Origin

From Old Norse sprúta, from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną.

Nearby common words

spruta is number 2,231 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,227korkad stupid
2,228post mail, post
2,229känn hunch, intuition, "feel"
2,230morsa to greet
2,232skäms shame on you (you should be ashamed of yourself)
2,233värde value, worth
2,234arbetad worked, processed, wrought
2,235fet fat, greasy

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary