färdas
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish færþas, equivalent to färd (“journey”) + -a + -s.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]färdas (present färdas, preterite färdades, supine färdats, imperative färdas)
- (deponent) to travel (to pass from here to there)
- 1945, Frans G. Bengtsson, Röde Orm [The Long Ships][1], Norstedt & Söners förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 26 October 2025:
- Ingen borde färdas längre söderut än till Kiev.
- No one should travel further south than Kiev.
Conjugation
[edit]| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | — | färdas | ||
| supine | — | färdats | ||
| imperative | — | färdas | ||
| imper. plural1 | — | färdens | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | — | — | färdas | färdades |
| ind. plural1 | — | — | färdas | färdades |
| subjunctive2 | — | — | färdes | färdades |
| present participle | färdandes | |||
| past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
References
[edit]- “färdas”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)