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 | skyffla |
| Present | skyfflar |
| Past | skyfflade |
| Imperative | skyffla |
| Supine | skyfflat |
Verbs conjugated like 'skyffla'
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 'skyffla'
skiffla,
skoffla,
skyfflas,
avskyffla,
kyffa,
skaffa,
skärfla,
skiffra,
skoffa,
skuffa,
Translations
shovel, to move materials with a shovel
Synonyms & Antonyms
Sample Sentences
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att skyffla gödsel (to shovel manure)
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Han skyfflade in mat i munnen (He shoved food into his mouth)
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Han skyfflade undan leksakerna från golvet med foten (He cleared the toys from the floor with his foot)
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Han försökte skyffla över ansvaret på andra (He tried to shuffle off ("shovel") the responsibility onto others)
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Fångarna skyfflades runt mellan olika anstalter (The prisoners were shuffled ("shoveled") between different institutions)
Additional Information
Etymology
1. sv. dial. skyffla, sköffla; jfr mlt. schüffelen (lt. schüffeln); till SKYFFEL References:
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2. By surface analysis, skyffel + -a.
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.