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 | flina |
| Present | flinar |
| Past | flinade |
| Imperative | flina |
| Supine | flinat |
Verbs conjugated like 'flina'
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 'flina'
fina,
flana,
flika,
flinga,
flipa,
flisa,
flita,
alna,
bina,
blåna,
Translations
grin, To smile showing the teeth
Synonyms & Antonyms
Sample Sentences
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De bara flina, när skepparn sa åt dom att ta på sig livbältena.
Additional Information
Etymology
1. sv. dial. flina, motsv. d. fline, nor. dial. flina; eg.: vara öppen, gapa; rotbesläktat med FLIMMA, FLINT, sbst.
2, FLINT-, FLISSA, ävensom FLIK, sbst.
1 References:
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2. From Proto-Germanic *flinōną (“to bare (one's teeth), smile”), from a Proto-Indo-European *pley- (“bare, bald, flat”). Cognate with Elfdalian flinå (“smile”); outside of Germanic, compare Lithuanian pli̇̀kas (“bald”), Latvian pliks (“bare, bald”). The root may be further connected to Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to cleave, to split off, to cast off”) (that smiling is a "splitting" of one's mouth), see Proto-Germanic *splītaną (“to split”) for more on the root. See: Elfdalian '
flinå', Proto-Germanic '
*splītaną'.
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.