värmer

Värmer is the present tense form of the Swedish verb värma, meaning to make something warm or to increase its temperature. The verb covers actions that raise temperature in objects, spaces or living beings, as well as natural warmth produced by the sun or heat sources. It can also describe warming in a more figurative sense, such as a gesture that warms someone’s mood.

Common uses include heating food: värma maten; warming a room: värma upp rummet; or warming oneself by a fire: värma sig. The sun värmer jorden, and a blanket or clothing can värma someone who is cold. The expression can also appear in broader contexts, for example describing someone’s hands being warmed by rubbing them together or a person warming themselves after exposure to cold.

Grammar and conjugation: In the present tense, värmer is used for all persons (jag värmer, du värmer, han/hon/den värmer, vi värmer, ni värmer, de värmer). The imperfect/preterite is värmde for all subjects. The supine form is värmt, which appears in perfect tenses such as har värmt or hade värmt. The present participle is värmande, used adjectivally as in en värmande gest (a warming gesture). The related noun is värme (heat), and common compounds include uppvärmning (preheating) and uppvärmd (heated).

See also: värme, uppvärmning, uppvärmd.