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 | nimma |
| Present | nimmar |
| Past | nimmade |
| Imperative | nimma |
| Supine | nimmat |
Verbs conjugated like 'nimma'
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 'nimma'
Translations
Synonyms & Antonyms
Sample Sentences
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[…]Ty äplet hon nam/ aff ormsens hand/[…] ([…] For the apple she took, from the hand of the snake, […]) [1571, Amund Laurentzson, “O HERRE Gudh j himmelrik”, in Then Swenska Psalmeboken, page 188:]
Additional Information
Etymology
1. fsv. nima, sv. dial. nimma; motsv. ä. d. nimmæ, d.
nemme, nor. dial. o. isl. nema, got. o. fsax.
niman, fht. neman, t.
nehmen; jfr gr. νέμειν. — Jfr ANAMMA, ANGENÄM, ANNÄMLIG, AVNÄMARE, BENIMMA, FÖRNIMMA, FÖRNÄM, IN-NAMS-HAGE, NIM, NIMME, NIMMEN References:
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2. From Old Norse nema, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną. Although this verb originally belonged to the class 4 of strong verbs, it has merged into class 3, possibly analogically to simma. See: Proto-Germanic '
*nemaną'.
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.