meddela
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meː(d)dela/
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Verb
meddela (present meddelar, preterite meddelade, supine meddelat, imperative meddela)
- to communicate, to notify ((transitive) To give (someone) notice of (something))
Usage notes
- 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
| 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 |
| present participle | meddelande | |||
| past participle | meddelad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Related terms
Further reading
- meddela in Svensk ordbok.