In modern Swedish, verbs are not conjugated in person or number; the same verb form is used for all persons in singular and plural.
All Forms
| Infinitive | jiddra |
| Present | jiddrar |
| Past | jiddrade |
| Imperative | jiddra |
| Supine | jiddrat |
Verbs conjugated like 'jiddra'
abalienera,
abandonnera,
abbreviera,
abdikera,
abila,
ablaktera,
abonnera,
abortera,
abradera,
absentera,
absolvera,
absorbera,
abstrahera,
accedera,
accelerera,
accentera,
accentuera,
acceptera,
accisera,
acklimatisera, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'jiddra'
bäddra,
bidra,
fidera,
hindra,
idra,
indra,
joddla,
jodera,
lindra,
löddra,
Translations
Synonyms & Antonyms
Sample Sentences
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Äh, sluta jiddra! (Meh, stop spewing nonsense!)
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Jiddra inte med Olle! (Don't mess with Olle!)
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Det är ingen idé att jiddra med utkastarna (It's no point arguing with the bouncers)
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Jag slutade jiddra med den stackars servitrisen där på krogen och pröjsade till slut. (I stopped messing/arguing with the poor waitress there at the pub and finally paid.) [2016, Kristin Nord, “Kranvattnets konnässörer”, in Sydsvenskan:]
Additional Information
Etymology
From an older slang sense ’to live’, from Tavringer Romani jida, jiddra (“to live”), cf. jidrepa (“life”), from Romani džiw- (“to live”). Related to Sanskrit जीवति (jīvati, “to live”). See: Sanskrit '
जीवति'.
Cognates
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Until the beginning of the 20th century, Swedish verbs had distinct forms for singular and plural. The forms below
show the verb conjugated in all moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.