Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

sväva

float

Meaning

float

In Swedish: hänga i luften

Conjugation

Conjugation of sväva (float)
Infinitive	att sväva	to float
Present	svävar	jag svävar
Past	svävade	jag svävade
Supine	svävat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har svävat	jag har svävat
Past perfect	hade svävat	jag hade svävat
Future	ska sväva	or: kommer att sväva
Conditional	skulle sväva	jag skulle sväva
Imperative	sväva!	a command
Present participle	svävande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of sväva
Infinitive	svävas
Present	svävas
Past	svävades
Supine	svävats

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 svävar. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise sväva

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

sväva in a sentence

ett svävande svar
a vague (evasive) answer

Words built with sväva

svävfarkost hovercraft

Questions

What does sväva mean in English?

sväva means “float”.

What is the past tense of sväva?

The past tense of sväva is svävade (“jag svävade”). The supine is svävat, used in “jag har svävat”.

What is the present tense of sväva?

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

Similar words

levitera

Origin

From Old Swedish svæva‚ likely borrowed from Middle Low German swēven, from Old Saxon *swivian, from Proto-Germanic *swibāną.

Nearby common words

sväva is number 3,752 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,748tjallare an informer, a snitch, a rat
3,749sopor rubbish, garbage (US)
3,750utgång exit, end
3,751intensiv intensive, intense
3,753allergisk allergic
3,754begäran application, request
3,755klia itch, scratch
3,756vett sense

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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