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 | anta; antaga |
| Present | antar; antager |
| Past | antog |
| Imperative | anta; antag |
| Supine | antagit; antatt |
Verbs conjugated like 'anta'
akttaga,
andra,
andraga,
ankaretaga,
anta,
antaga,
arvtaga,
avbedraga,
avdagata,
avdagataga,
avdraga,
avta,
avtaga,
bedra,
bedraga,
beslagta,
betaga,
bidra,
bidraga,
bortta, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'anta'
akta,
ana,
anda,
ansa,
arta,
avta,
banta,
inta,
kanta,
panta,
Translations
assume, to suppose to be true
believe, to consider likely
enact, to make (a bill) into law
posit, to suggest
suppose, conclude; believe
suppose, theorize; hypothesize
suspect, imagine or suppose to be true, without proof
Sample Sentences
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- Jag antar det … - Ja ? Så fint. Då säger vi så.
(Royalteen: Princess Margrethe)
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-lika starkt som Franz Kafka. Varför det? -Det är det ingen som vet, antar jag. -Och vem säger det ?
(Franz)
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Jag har haft fullt upp. Med familjen, antar jag.
(Kiss of the Spider Woman)
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Okej. Nåt privat, antar jag. [ pratar " svengelska " ] Med hennes sambo, eller nåt. Varsågod.
(Trouble)
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Du antar det ? Är du det eller inte ? Det är jag, sir. Det är jag.
(Killers of the Flower Moon)
Additional Information
Etymology
Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake. See: German, old spelling '
annehmen', Danish '
antage', Norwegian '
anta', Norwegian, nynorsk '
anta', Swedish '
åta', English '
ontake'.
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.