Swedish verb

svida

smart, sting

Meaning

smart; sting

In Swedish: göra ont på ett brännande sätt

Conjugation

Conjugation of svida (smart)
Infinitive	att svida	to smart
Present	svider	jag svider
Past	sved	jag sved
Supine	svidit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har svidit	jag har svidit
Past perfect	hade svidit	jag hade svidit
Future	ska svida	or: kommer att svida
Conditional	skulle svida	jag skulle svida
Imperative	svid!	a command
Present participle	svidande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of svida
Infinitive	svidas
Present	svids
Past	sveds
Supine	svidits

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 svider. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise svida

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

svida in a sentence

Wow! Det svider!
Wow! That hurts!

Expressions

ett svidande nederlag
a crushing defeat

Questions

What does svida mean in English?

svida means “smart, sting”.

What is the past tense of svida?

The past tense of svida is sved (“jag sved”). The supine is svidit, used in “jag har svidit”.

What is the present tense of svida?

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

Origin

From Old Norse svíða, from Proto-Germanic *swīþaną.

Nearby common words

svida is number 5,428 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

5,424eventuell possible, any
5,425knarka take drugs
5,426uppenbarelse revelation, creature
5,427himmelsk Heavenly
5,429steka roast, fry
5,430troende believer
5,431noggrant carefully
5,432kex biscuit, a cracker, (UK) a biscuit

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