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 | gitta |
| Present | gittar |
| Past | gittade |
| Imperative | gitta |
| Supine | gittat |
Verbs conjugated like 'gitta'
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 'gitta'
gifta,
gista,
gotta,
hitta,
kitta,
sitta,
titta,
vitta,
bikta,
bita,
Translations
Synonyms & Antonyms
Sample Sentences
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Hon gitte inte tala till honom. Han var så dum, att det äcklade henne. (She couldn't stand talking to him. He was so dumb, it sickened her.) [1921, Hjalmar Bergman, Farmor och Vår Herre:]
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Figge George .., som jag gatt köra i väg från kontoret. (Figge George .., that I had to drive away from the office.) [1912, Olof Högberg, Utbölingar. 1-2:]
Additional Information
Etymology
1. fsv. gita, motsv. d.
gide, sidoform till ä. fsv. gæta, motsv. isl. geta, skapa, skaffa, få, got. bi-gitan, uppnå, eng. get, få, till den germ. roten get med grundbet.: få tag i (jfr FÖRGÄTA o. GÅTA) References:
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2. From Old Swedish gita (“succeed, accomplish, bring”), a later form of Old Swedish gæta (“tell, guess, get hold of”), from Old Norse geta (“to get, guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to acquire, get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“take, seize”). Related to Danish gide (“to be bothered to”) and Icelandic geta (“to be able to”) and also to Swedish förgäta, gissa, gåta, gäta. See: Proto-Germanic '
*getaną'.
Verbs referencing "gitta"
Icelandic
geta, Faroese
gita, Norwegian, nynorsk
gidda.
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.