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stirra

stare

Meaning

stare

In Swedish: titta ihärdigt (utan att blinka)

Conjugation

Conjugation of stirra (stare)
Infinitive	att stirra	to stare
Present	stirrar	jag stirrar
Past	stirrade	jag stirrade
Supine	stirrat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har stirrat	jag har stirrat
Past perfect	hade stirrat	jag hade stirrat
Future	ska stirra	or: kommer att stirra
Conditional	skulle stirra	jag skulle stirra
Imperative	stirra!	a command
Present participle	stirrande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of stirra
Infinitive	stirras
Present	stirras
Past	stirrades
Supine	stirrats

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 stirrar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise stirra

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

Expressions

stirra sig blind på ett problem
become hypnotized by a problem

Questions

What does stirra mean in English?

stirra means “stare”.

What is the past tense of stirra?

The past tense of stirra is stirrade (“jag stirrade”). The supine is stirrat, used in “jag har stirrat”.

What is the present tense of stirra?

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

Similar words

globlängabliga

Origin

From Old Norse stíra.

Nearby common words

stirra is number 1,714 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,710björn bear
1,711samman together
1,712lokal premises
1,713blanda blend, mix
1,715majestät majesty
1,716röja clear up, clear (land)
1,717placera place
1,719hämnd vengeance, revenge

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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