meddela
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
meddela (present meddelar, preterite meddelade, supine meddelat, imperative meddela)
- to communicate, to notify ((transitive) To give (someone) notice of (something))
Usage notes edit
- Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of meddela (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | meddela | meddelas | ||
| Supine | meddelat | meddelats | ||
| Imperative | meddela | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | meddelen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | meddelar | meddelade | meddelas | meddelades |
| Ind. plural1 | meddela | meddelade | meddelas | meddelades |
| Subjunctive2 | meddele | meddelade | meddeles | meddelades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | meddelande | |||
| Past participle | meddelad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- meddela in Svensk ordbok.