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spöka

haunt

Meaning

haunt

In Swedish: visa sig som spöke

Conjugation

Conjugation of spöka (haunt)
Infinitive	att spöka	to haunt
Present	spökar	jag spökar
Past	spökade	jag spökade
Supine	spökat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har spökat	jag har spökat
Past perfect	hade spökat	jag hade spökat
Future	ska spöka	or: kommer att spöka
Conditional	skulle spöka	jag skulle spöka
Imperative	spöka!	a command
Present participle	spökande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of spöka
Infinitive	spökas
Present	spökas
Past	spökades
Supine	spökats

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 spökar. See the four verb groups explained.

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spöka in a sentence

Vissa tror att den döda kungen fortfarande spökar i korridorerna i sitt gamla slott
Some believe that the dead king still haunts the halls of his old castle
Ungarna tog på sig vita lakan och spökade för farmor
The kids put on white sheets and played ghosts [implied – engaged in ghostly activity] for grandma
Det spökar på slottet
The castle is haunted
Jag tror att det spökar härinne
I think this place is haunted
Det spökar som mest under spöktimmen
Ghosts are most active during the witching hour / Ghostly activity is at its highest during the witching hour
Min son kan inte sova om nätterna. Kan det vara de kommande proven som spökar?
My son can't sleep at night. Could the upcoming tests be haunting him?
Min telefon spökar idag.
My phone is playing up today.

Questions

What does spöka mean in English?

spöka means “haunt”.

What is the past tense of spöka?

The past tense of spöka is spökade (“jag spökade”). The supine is spökat, used in “jag har spökat”.

What is the present tense of spöka?

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

Similar words

hemsöka

Origin

Affix of spöke (“ghost”) + -a (noun→verb).

Nearby common words

spöka is number 3,628 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,624databas database
3,625avskeda sack, dismiss
3,626betrakta look at, contemplate
3,627främsta first
3,629signera sign
3,630kappa coat
3,631underkläder underwear, underclothes
3,632figur figure, character

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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