Verb
att vara
to be
Beginnerverb
Meaning
att vara is the Swedish word for to be — 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
Ditt hjärta är viktigt.
Your heart is important.
Short, natural learner sentences—meant for memory, not dictionary citations.
Word forms
Common inflected forms of att vara you will see while reading Swedish.
- var
- vara
- varit
- vore
- är