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stunda

approach, draw near

Meaning

approach, draw near

In Swedish: snart inträffa

Conjugation

Conjugation of stunda (approach)
Infinitive	att stunda	to approach
Present	stundar	jag stundar
Past	stundade	jag stundade
Supine	stundat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har stundat	jag har stundat
Past perfect	hade stundat	jag hade stundat
Future	ska stunda	or: kommer att stunda
Conditional	skulle stunda	jag skulle stunda
Imperative	stunda!	a command
Present participle	stundande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of stunda
Infinitive	stundas
Present	stundas
Past	stundades
Supine	stundats

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 stundar. See the four verb groups explained.

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stunda in a sentence

det stundande riksdagsvalet
the approaching Parliamentary elections
det stundar ljusare tider
better times will soon be here

Questions

What does stunda mean in English?

stunda means “approach, draw near”.

What is the past tense of stunda?

The past tense of stunda is stundade (“jag stundade”). The supine is stundat, used in “jag har stundat”.

What is the present tense of stunda?

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

Origin

stund + -a

Nearby common words

stunda is number 4,367 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

4,363församling assembly, parish
4,364trea three, third
4,365snubbla trip, stumble
4,366kyrkogård a cemetery, a graveyard
4,368ryka smoke, be lost
4,369giva dated form of ge (“to give”)
4,370like equal
4,371tuffing rough customer

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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