lägga ner
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Alternative forms
Verb
lägga ner (present lägger ner, preterite lade, la ner, supine lagt ner, imperative lägg ner)
- to place lying (to lay) down somewhere
- Hon lade ner handdukarna på golvet
- She put the towels down on the floor ("Hon lade handdukarna på golvet" is equivalent)
- to put (into a bag, in a pocket, or in a box of some kind)
- Synonyms: lägga, stoppa, stoppa ner
- Han lade ner böckerna i väskan
- He put the books into the bag
- to close down, to discontinue; to end (a business, government agency, project, or other enterprise)
- Synonyms: (mostly businesses) slå igen, (mostly businesses) ta ner skylten (“take down the sign”)
- Företaget lades ner efter ett katastrofalt år
- The company was closed down after a catastrophic year
- Hon funderade på att lägga ner gitarrprojektet
- She was thinking of abandoning her guitar project
- (usually with på) to expend (some resource, like money or time or energy, towards some goal)
Conjugation
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | lägga ner | läggas ner | ||
| Supine | lagt ner | lagts ner | ||
| Imperative | lägg ner | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | läggen ner | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | lägger ner | lade ner | läggs ner, lägges ner | lades ner |
| Ind. plural1 | lägga ner | lade ner | läggas ner | lades ner |
| Subjunctive2 | lägge ner | lade ner | lägges ner | lades ner |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | nerläggande | |||
| Past participle | nerlagd | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Conjugation of lägga (weak)
See also
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