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 | blota |
| Present | blotar |
| Past | blotade |
| Imperative | blota |
| Supine | blotat |
Verbs conjugated like 'blota'
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 'blota'
bloda,
blöta,
blotta,
bota,
flota,
klota,
älta,
banta,
basta,
båta,
Translations
Synonyms & Antonyms
Sample Sentences
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[Det] svar Halfdan får från makterna, till [vilka] han blotat, är att […] i hans ätt skall under tre hundra år ingen kvinna och ingen obetydande man födas. (The response Halfdan gets from the powers, to whom he sacrificed, is that in his family there shall not for three hundred years be born a woman or a fameless man.) [1889, Viktor Rydberg, Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi [Investigations into Germanic Mythology], volume 1, Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Runeberg.org, courtesy of Harvard Library, University of Virginia Library & Google Books, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2025:]
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[Vi] blotade till havsguden för lycklig hemfärd. (We sacrificed to the sea god for a safe journey home.) [1945, Frans G. Bengtsson, Röde Orm [The Long Ships], Norstedt & Söners förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2025:]
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[Ett] blothus [är en] hednisk byggnad där man blotar – det vill säga offrar – till gudarna. (A blót house is a pagan building where one sacrifices—that is, offers—to the gods.) [2016, Lars Lönnroth, transl., Den poetiska Eddan [The Poetic Edda], Atlantis, →ISBN, page 494:]
Additional Information
Etymology
1. fsv. blota, motsv. fd. o. dan. blote, isl. blóta, got. blōtan, fht. blōzan, pluozan, feng. blōtan; jfr det från nord. spr. lånade lap. luottat, sjunga. Verbets äldsta germ. bet. synes vara anropa l. åkalla (med besvärjelser l. offer); enl.
Bugge i Beitr. z. kunde d. indogerm. spr. 3: 98 (1879) är det möjl. besläktadt med lat. flamen (af *flādmen), offerpräst. Jfr BLODA, v.2, BLOT, sbst.1, BLOTTA, v.4, BLÄTSA, BLÄTSAN References: 1
2. From Old Swedish blota, from Old Norse blóta, from Proto-Germanic *blōtaną. Compare Danish blote, Old English blotan. See: Old Swedish 'blota', Proto-Germanic '*blōtaną', Danish 'blote', Old English 'blotan'.
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.