hoppande

Hoppande is the present participle of the Swedish verb hoppa, meaning to jump. In Swedish, present participles formed with the suffix -ande are used both as adjectives and as predicative modifiers to describe ongoing action or state. The form is built from the verb stem hoppa and follows the common pattern for -a verbs in Swedish.

Usage and grammar. When used attributively, hoppande describes something that is currently jumping or inclined to jump: en hoppande kanin, hoppande bollar. In definite form this becomes den hoppande kaninen, de hoppande bollarna. Predicatively, you can say kaninen är hoppande to indicate that the rabbit is in the act of jumping, though in everyday Swedish one might simply say kaninen hoppar.

Notes on form and meaning. The noun form for a jump is hopp or hoppet; hoppande is not typically used as a noun. The participle regularly appears in descriptions of movement, sports, animals, and in children’s literature, and it can be combined with prepositional phrases such as hoppande framåt or hoppande omkring to express direction of movement.

Examples. Den hoppande kaninen hoppade över häcken. (The hopping rabbit hopped over the hedge.) Hoppande barn lekte i parken. (Hobby children were playing in the park.) These examples illustrate how hoppande can describe ongoing action or state within a sentence, functioning as an adjective or predicative modifier.