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tortera

torture

Meaning

torture

In Swedish: medvetet pina (någon) (för att få fram en bekännelse el. dyl)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tortera (torture)
Infinitive	att tortera	to torture
Present	torterar	jag torterar
Past	torterade	jag torterade
Supine	torterat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har torterat	jag har torterat
Past perfect	hade torterat	jag hade torterat
Future	ska tortera	or: kommer att tortera
Conditional	skulle tortera	jag skulle tortera
Imperative	tortera!	a command
Present participle	torterande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	torterad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of tortera
Infinitive	torteras
Present	torteras
Past	torterades
Supine	torterats

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 torterar. See the four verb groups explained.

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Questions

What does tortera mean in English?

tortera means “torture”.

What is the past tense of tortera?

The past tense of tortera is torterade (“jag torterade”). The supine is torterat, used in “jag har torterat”.

What is the present tense of tortera?

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

Origin

From tortyr + -era, attested from 1647.

Nearby common words

tortera is number 2,757 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,753undervisa teach
2,754feber fever, temperature
2,755södra southern, south
2,756kultur culture, agriculture
2,758mystisk mysterious, mystical
2,759party party
2,760recept prescription, recipe
2,761skådespelare an actor (person who performs in a theatrical play or film)

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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