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 | spöka |
| Present | spökar |
| Past | spökade |
| Imperative | spöka |
| Supine | spökat |
Verbs conjugated like 'spöka'
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 'spöka'
söka,
spaka,
spåka,
späka,
spika,
spöa,
stöka,
böka,
göka,
knöka,
Translations
Synonyms & Antonyms
Sample Sentences
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Vissa tror att den döda kungen fortfarande spökar i korridorerna i sitt gamla slott (Some believe that the dead king still haunts the halls of his old castle)
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Ungarna tog på sig vita lakan och spökade för farmor (The kids put on white sheets and played ghosts [implied – engaged in ghostly activity] for grandma)
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Det spökar på slottet (The castle is haunted)
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Jag tror att det spökar härinne (I think this place is haunted)
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Det spökar som mest under spöktimmen (Ghosts are most active during the witching hour / Ghostly activity is at its highest during the witching hour)
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Min son kan inte sova om nätterna. Kan det vara de kommande proven som spökar? (My son can't sleep at night. Could the upcoming tests be haunting him?)
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Min telefon spökar idag. (My phone is playing up today.)
Additional Information
Etymology
1. jfr ä. d. spöge (i bet. 1) o. dan. spöge (i bet. 1 o. 2), nor. spöke, nor. dial. spökja (i bet. 1 o. 2); av mlt. spöken (i bet. 1), till spok, spöke (se SPOK). — Jfr SPÖKE References:
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2. Affix of spöke (“ghost”) + -a (noun→verb). Sense 4 is a calque of English ghost (verb). See: English '
ghost'.
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.