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tvätta

wash/ˈtvɛtːˌa/

Meaning

wash

In Swedish: rengöra med vatten

Conjugation

Conjugation of tvätta (wash)
Infinitive	att tvätta	to wash
Present	tvättar	jag tvättar
Past	tvättade	jag tvättade
Supine	tvättat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har tvättat	jag har tvättat
Past perfect	hade tvättat	jag hade tvättat
Future	ska tvätta	or: kommer att tvätta
Conditional	skulle tvätta	jag skulle tvätta
Imperative	tvätta!	a command
Present participle	tvättande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	tvättad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of tvätta
Infinitive	tvättas
Present	tvättas
Past	tvättades
Supine	tvättats

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 tvättar. See the four verb groups explained.

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

tvätta in a sentence

tvätta kläder
wash clothing
tvätta sig
wash
Han tvättade kläderna
He washed the clothes
en tvättmaskin
a washing machine [Could be seen as deriving from tvätt as well]
Hon tvättade händerna
She washed her hands
tvätta altanen
wash the deck
kemtvätta mattan
dry clean [chem-wash] the carpet
Katter tvättar sig genom att slicka pälsen
Cats clean themselves by licking their fur

Questions

What does tvätta mean in English?

tvätta means “wash”.

What is the past tense of tvätta?

The past tense of tvätta is tvättade (“jag tvättade”). The supine is tvättat, used in “jag har tvättat”.

What is the present tense of tvätta?

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

Similar words

tvagavaskalögabyka

Where the course teaches it

Origin

From Old Norse þváttr, from Proto-Germanic *þwahtuz, from the root of the verb þvá.

Nearby common words

tvätta is number 1,238 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,234flaska bottle
1,235vit white
1,236kunnat could
1,237riskera risk, run the risk of
1,239känd well-known
1,240bråka kick up a fuss, fight
1,241tillåta allow
1,242hot threat, menace

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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