Swedish verb· top 2,000 most common

svika

fail/²sviːka/

Meaning

fail

In Swedish: missbruka förtroende, inte hålla (ett löfte)

Conjugation

Conjugation of svika (fail)
Infinitive	att svika	to fail
Present	sviker	jag sviker
Past	svek	jag svek
Supine	svikit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har svikit	jag har svikit
Past perfect	hade svikit	jag hade svikit
Future	ska svika	or: kommer att svika
Conditional	skulle svika	jag skulle svika
Imperative	svik!	a command
Present participle	svikande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	sviken	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of svika
Infinitive	svikas
Present	sviks
Past	sveks
Supine	svikits

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 sviker. See the four verb groups explained.

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

svika in a sentence

svika ett löfte
break a promise, go back on one's word
minnet sviker mig
my memory fails me

Questions

What does svika mean in English?

svika means “fail”.

What is the past tense of svika?

The past tense of svika is svek (“jag svek”). The supine is svikit, used in “jag har svikit”.

What is the present tense of svika?

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

Similar words

bedraförråda

Origin

From Old Swedish svīkia, from Old Norse svíkja, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną.

Nearby common words

svika is number 1,679 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,675sjuka illness
1,676lo lynx
1,677tjena hi, howdy
1,678fars farce
1,680allvarlig serious, grave, solemn, serious
1,681omedelbart immediately
1,682senator senator
1,683existera exist

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