meddela

Swedish

med +‎ dela

meddela (present meddelar, preterite meddelade, supine meddelat, imperative meddela)

to communicate, to notify ((transitive) To give (someone) notice of (something))

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 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.