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svänga

sway, swing

Meaning

sway; swing

In Swedish: röra sig i en båge fram och tillbaka

Conjugation

Conjugation of svänga (sway)
Infinitive	att svänga	to sway
Present	svänger	jag svänger
Past	svängde	jag svängde
Supine	svängt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har svängt	jag har svängt
Past perfect	hade svängt	jag hade svängt
Future	ska svänga	or: kommer att svänga
Conditional	skulle svänga	jag skulle svänga
Imperative	sväng!	a command
Present participle	svängande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	svängd	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of svänga
Infinitive	svängas
Present	svängs
Past	svängdes
Supine	svängts

Group 2: -er verbs. Present -er, past -de or -te (after a voiceless consonant), supine -t. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use svänger. See the four verb groups explained.

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

svänga in a sentence

grinden svängde för vinden
the gate swung in the wind
opinionen har svängt
opinion has swung
han svängde bilen åt höger
he swung the car to the right
Sväng till vänster!
Turn left!

Expressions

det svänger om (musiken)
it (the music) is swinging

Words built with svänga

svängdörr swing(ing) door, revolving door

Questions

What does svänga mean in English?

svänga means “sway, swing”.

What is the past tense of svänga?

The past tense of svänga is svängde (“jag svängde”). The supine is svängt, used in “jag har svängt”.

What is the present tense of svänga?

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

Similar words

gira

Origin

Borrowed from Middle Low German swengen, from Proto-West Germanic *swangijan.

Nearby common words

svänga is number 3,012 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,007besluten resolved, determined
3,008karaktär character, characteristic
3,009pension pension
3,010religion religion
3,013arresterad arrested
3,014godmorgon good morning
3,015dragit drew, extracted
3,016betyg testimonial, mark

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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