Borrowed from English make sense. In contrast to other Scandinavian languages like Danish give mening, Norwegian Bokmål gi mening and Norwegian Nynorsk gjeva meining, Swedish lacks a perfect equivalent for "make sense." Compare also Icelandic meika sens, Dutch sense maken.
mejka sense (present mejkar sense, preterite mejkade sense, supine mejkat sense, imperative mejka sense)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | mejka sense | — | ||
Supine | mejkat sense | — | ||
Imperative | mejka sense | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | mejken sense | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | mejkar sense | mejkade sense | — | — |
Ind. plural1 | mejka sense | mejkade sense | — | — |
Subjunctive2 | mejke sense | mejkade sense | — | — |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | — | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |