Swedish verb

undgå

escape

Meaning

escape

In Swedish: slippa ifrån

Conjugation

Conjugation of undgå (escape)
Infinitive	att undgå	to escape
Present	undgår	jag undgår
Past	undgick	jag undgick
Supine	undgått	used after har / hade
Perfect	har undgått	jag har undgått
Past perfect	hade undgått	jag hade undgått
Future	ska undgå	or: kommer att undgå
Conditional	skulle undgå	jag skulle undgå
Imperative	undgå!	a command
Present participle	undgående	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of undgå
Infinitive	undgås
Present	undgås
Past	undgicks
Supine	undgåtts

Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use undgår. See the four verb groups explained.

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

undgå in a sentence

jag kunde inte undgå att höra det
I could not help hearing it
rymlingen lyckades undgå upptäckt
the fugitive managed to avoid discovery

Questions

What does undgå mean in English?

undgå means “escape”.

What is the past tense of undgå?

The past tense of undgå is undgick (“jag undgick”). The supine is undgått, used in “jag har undgått”.

What is the present tense of undgå?

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

Similar words

undkommamissa

Origin

From Old Swedish untganga, from Middle Low German untgan, entgan, equivalent to und- + gå.

Nearby common words

undgå is number 5,334 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

5,330design design
5,331kross crusher (machine that crushes), chipping (fragment broken off from a larger material)
5,332vissla whistle
5,333städad decent
5,335auktoritet authority
5,336festival festival
5,337härom about this (these, etc.); from here (there, etc.)
5,338sabotera spoil, ruin

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