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suga

suck

suga as a verb

Meaning

suck

In Swedish: dra in i munnen med hjälp av luft

Conjugation

Conjugation of suga (suck)
Infinitive	att suga	to suck
Present	suger	jag suger
Past	sög	jag sög
Supine	sugit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har sugit	jag har sugit
Past perfect	hade sugit	jag hade sugit
Future	ska suga	or: kommer att suga
Conditional	skulle suga	jag skulle suga
Imperative	sug!	a command
Present participle	sugande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	sugen	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of suga
Infinitive	sugas
Present	sugs
Past	sögs
Supine	sugits

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 suger. See the four verb groups explained.

suga as a noun(en suga)

Meaning

carpet bugle, plants in the genus Ajuga

Forms

Forms of suga
Singular, indefinite	en suga
Singular, definite	sugan
Plural, indefinite	sugor
Plural, definite	sugorna

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

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

suga in a sentence

suga på en karamell
suck a toffee
suga åt sig beröm
suck up praise
suga på tummen
suck one's thumb
blodsugande insekter
blood-sucking insects
Bebisen sög på en napp
The baby was sucking on a pacifier
Filmen suger
The movie sucks
Jag suger på tennis
I suck at tennis
Att bli stucken av ett bi suger
Getting stung by a bee sucks

Expressions

det suger i magen på mig
I have a hollow feeling in my stomach

Questions

What does suga mean in English?

suga means “suck”.

Is it en suga or ett suga?

It is en suga, and “the carpet bugle” is sugan.

What is the plural of suga?

The plural of suga is sugor, and the definite plural is sugorna.

What is the past tense of suga?

The past tense of suga is sög (“jag sög”). The supine is sugit, used in “jag har sugit”.

What is the present tense of suga?

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

Similar words

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Origin

From Old Swedish sūgha, from Old Norse súga, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą, from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-.

Nearby common words

suga is number 1,082 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,078akta be careful (with), watch out (for)
1,079bit piece, bit, part, bit
1,080avslöja reveal, uncover
1,081lögn falsehood, lie
1,083love wrist (connecting the hand to the forearm)
1,084förlåta forgive
1,085testa test
1,086speciell special

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