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svimma

faint

Meaning

faint

In Swedish: plötsligt förlora medvetandet

Conjugation

Conjugation of svimma (faint)
Infinitive	att svimma	to faint
Present	svimmar	jag svimmar
Past	svimmade	jag svimmade
Supine	svimmat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har svimmat	jag har svimmat
Past perfect	hade svimmat	jag hade svimmat
Future	ska svimma	or: kommer att svimma
Conditional	skulle svimma	jag skulle svimma
Imperative	svimma!	a command
Present participle	svimmande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	avsvimmad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of svimma
Infinitive	svimmas
Present	svimmas
Past	svimmades
Supine	svimmats

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 svimmar. See the four verb groups explained.

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svimma in a sentence

svimma av förskräckelse
faint from fear
Jag svimmade av skräck när jag såg vampyren
I fainted with fear when I saw the vampire
att svimma (av)
to pass out

Questions

What does svimma mean in English?

svimma means “faint”.

What is the past tense of svimma?

The past tense of svimma is svimmade (“jag svimmade”). The supine is svimmat, used in “jag har svimmat”.

What is the present tense of svimma?

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

Origin

From Middle Low German swimen, from Proto-Germanic *swīmaną (“to sway, to swoon”).

Nearby common words

svimma is number 2,877 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,873jägare hunter
2,874ovanlig unusual
2,875mynt coin
2,876mysterium mystery
2,878brist scarcity, want
2,879uttalande statement
2,880kön gender
2,881nacke back of the neck

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary