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tränga

push, jostle, force/trɛŋːa/

Meaning

push, jostle; force

In Swedish: bana sig väg trots motstånd

Conjugation

Conjugation of tränga (push)
Infinitive	att tränga	to push
Present	tränger	jag tränger
Past	trängde	jag trängde
Supine	trängt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har trängt	jag har trängt
Past perfect	hade trängt	jag hade trängt
Future	ska tränga	or: kommer att tränga
Conditional	skulle tränga	jag skulle tränga
Imperative	träng!	a command
Present participle	trängande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	trängd	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of tränga
Infinitive	trängas
Present	trängs
Past	trängdes
Supine	trängts

Group 2: -er verbs. Present -er, past -de or -te (after a voiceless consonant), supine -t. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use tränger. See the four verb groups explained.

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tränga in a sentence

ett regnområde tränger in från Nordsjön
rain is moving in from the North Sea
tränga sig fram
push one's way through
bilen trängdes av vägen
the car was forced off the road
tränga in
penetrate (push in)
att trängas
to cram together as a group of people, to force one's way
De trängs bak i bilen
They're crammed ("are cramming/pressing") in the back of the car
Sluta trängas!
Stop jostling/cramming (yourself in)!
att tränga ut
to crowd out

Questions

What does tränga mean in English?

tränga means “push, jostle, force”.

What is the past tense of tränga?

The past tense of tränga is trängde (“jag trängde”). The supine is trängt, used in “jag har trängt”.

What is the present tense of tränga?

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

Origin

From Old Swedish þrængia, from Old Norse þrøngva, from Proto-Germanic *þrangwijaną (“to press, to push”).

Nearby common words

tränga is number 3,280 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

3,276omringa surround
3,277tiga keep silent
3,278amiral admiral
3,279utforska investigate
3,281kärring old woman, wife
3,282minsann certainly
3,283insekt insect
3,284rysk Russian

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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