SOVER

Sover is a present-tense verb form meaning “to sleep” in several North Germanic languages, including Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. It is the third-person singular present tense of the verb meaning to sleep. The infinitive forms are sove in Danish and Norwegian and sova in Swedish. Because these languages share a common linguistic heritage, sover is a recognizable word across them and frequently appears in everyday speech.

The form is used to describe sleeping in progress or general sleep patterns. Examples include Norwegian sentences such as “Han sover,” Danish “Hun sover,” and Swedish “Hon sover.” Other present-tense forms in these languages include “du sover” (you sleep) and “jag sover” or “jeg sover” (I sleep), depending on the language.

Sover does not function as an English noun or place name, but it is commonly cited in discussions of North Germanic verb conjugation and morphology. In linguistic references, sover is often presented as an illustration of how present-tense forms change with person and number within the same verb family.

See also: Sova (to sleep) in Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian; Sleep (English) for a broader cross-language comparison.