What is the past tense of luta in Swedish?

The past tense (preteritum) of luta is lutade, the same for every person: jag lutade, du lutade, vi lutade. Example from our stories: “Anders lutade sig fram över bordet.”

What is the supine of luta?

lutat. The supine is used with har and hade to form the perfect: jag har lutat, jag hade lutat.

Is luta a regular verb?

Yes. luta follows group 1 (-ar, -ade): lutar, lutade, lutat.

luta Conjugation: Swedish Verb “lean”

Form	Swedish	English pattern
Infinitive	att luta	to …
Present	lutar	I …, he …s
Past (preteritum)	lutade	I …ed
Supine (perfect)	har lutat	have …ed
Past perfect	hade lutat	had …ed
Future	ska luta / kommer att luta	will …
Imperative	luta!	… !
Past participle	lutad	…ed (adjective)
Present participle	lutande	…ing

Swedish verbs do not change for person: jag lutar, du lutar, hon lutar, vi lutar, de lutar. Learn one form per tense and you can use it with everyone.

How luta conjugates

Group 1 is the largest and most regular group. The infinitive ends in -a, the present adds -r, the past adds -de and the supine adds -t: tala → talar, talade, talat. New verbs that enter Swedish (googla, chatta) almost always join this group. So luta → lutar, lutade, lutat.

Meanings and examples

Patterns: ngn = någon (someone) · ngt = något (something) · SATS = a clause · VERB = a verb · PLATS = a place · RIKTNING = a direction · TID = a time · SÄTT = a manner · ADJ = an adjective

1 lean

står snett

Pattern ngt lutar

tornet lutarthe tower is leaning
det lutande tornet i Pisa

2 lean

ställer snett; böjer (sig)

Pattern ngn lutar sig/ngt (mot ngt)

han lutade cykeln mot väggenhe leaned the bicycle against the wall
luta sig bakåtlean backward
hon lutade cykeln mot väggen
han lutade sig bakåt

Phrases with luta

Swedish builds many meanings by adding a particle (upp, ut, på, om) or a fixed phrase. These are the ones the dictionary lists:

det lutar åt att vi åker ("vi har nästan bestämt oss för att åka") i morgonit looks as if we'll be going ("we have almost decided to go") tomorrow

luta in real stories

Sentences from the Smisli reading library where this verb appears:

Anders lutade sig fram över bordet.Norrsken, episode 5
Erik lutar sig framåt med stor nyfikenhet.Midsommarmordet, episode 5
Sara lutar sig mot Erik, och de andas djupt i hopp om att mardrömmen är över.Vargen i skogen, episode 5

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