Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

sy

sew, stitch/ˈsyː/

Meaning

sew; stitch

In Swedish: arbeta med nål och tråd (för att fästa ihop något)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sy (sew)
Infinitive	att sy	to sew
Present	syr	jag syr
Past	sydde	jag sydde
Supine	sytt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har sytt	jag har sytt
Past perfect	hade sytt	jag hade sytt
Future	ska sy	or: kommer att sy
Conditional	skulle sy	jag skulle sy
Imperative	sy!	a command
Present participle	syende	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	sydd	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of sy
Infinitive	sys
Present	sys
Past	syddes
Supine	sytts

Group 3: short verbs. The infinitive does not end in -a; present -r, past -dde, supine -tt. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use syr. See the four verb groups explained.

Practise sy

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

sy in a sentence

sy kläder
sew clothes
såret fick sys ihop
the wound had to be stitched

Questions

What does sy mean in English?

sy means “sew, stitch”.

What is the past tense of sy?

The past tense of sy is sydde (“jag sydde”). The supine is sytt, used in “jag har sytt”.

What is the present tense of sy?

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

Origin

From Old Norse sýja.

Nearby common words

sy is number 2,222 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,218räknas count
2,219boka book, reserve
2,220förfölja pursue; persecute
2,221ende end, only one
2,223lager stockroom, storage
2,224politik policy
2,225utsätta expose
2,226tjugo twenty

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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