Verb
att behöva
to need
Beginnerverb
Meaning
att behöva is the Swedish word for to need — a verb you meet early when building Swedish vocabulary. Learn it in context with the example below, hear the pronunciation, then lock it into memory by playing it in the free LearnSwedishFast arcade game.
Example
De beslutar att börja nu.
They decide to begin now.
Short, natural learner sentences—meant for memory, not dictionary citations.
Word forms
Common inflected forms of att behöva you will see while reading Swedish.
- behöva
- behövde
- behöver
- behövt