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utsätta

expose

Meaning

expose

In Swedish: göra till föremål (för något negativt)

Conjugation

Conjugation of utsätta (expose)
Infinitive	att utsätta	to expose
Present	utsätter	jag utsätter
Past	utsatte	jag utsatte
Supine	utsatt	used after har / hade
Perfect	har utsatt	jag har utsatt
Past perfect	hade utsatt	jag hade utsatt
Future	ska utsätta	or: kommer att utsätta
Conditional	skulle utsätta	jag skulle utsätta
Imperative	utsätt!	a command
Present participle	utsättande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	utsatt	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of utsätta
Infinitive	utsättas
Present	utsätts
Past	utsattes
Supine	utsatts

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 utsätter. See the four verb groups explained.

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utsätta in a sentence

han utsattes för påtryckningar
he was subjected to pressure

Questions

What does utsätta mean in English?

utsätta means “expose”.

What is the past tense of utsätta?

The past tense of utsätta is utsatte (“jag utsatte”). The supine is utsatt, used in “jag har utsatt”.

What is the present tense of utsätta?

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

Origin

From ut + sätta.

Nearby common words

utsätta is number 2,225 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,221ende end, only one
2,222sy sew, stitch
2,223lager stockroom, storage
2,224politik policy
2,226tjugo twenty
2,227korkad stupid
2,228post mail, post
2,229känn hunch, intuition, "feel"

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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