överför

överför is a Swedish verb meaning to transfer, convey, or move something from one place or state to another. It is used for physical movements as well as for abstract transfers such as funds, data, or ownership. The term appears in finance, technology, logistics, and everyday language, and it can describe actions performed by people, organizations, or systems.

Etymology: the word combines över meaning over or across and föra meaning to carry or bring. It belongs to a family of verbs built from a base verb with the prefix över to indicate moving beyond or across a boundary, producing forms used in various tenses and voices.

Conjugation and forms: in present tense the third-person singular form is överför (Han överför pengar). The infinitive is överföra, the past tense is överförde, and the supine (past participle) is överfört. The imperative mood is also överför, used in commands such as Överför pengarna nu.

Usage and compounds: överföring is the noun form denoting the act or process of transferring, as in banköverföring (bank transfer) or dataöverföring (data transfer). Other related forms include överförbar (transferable) and överföringssystem (transfer systems). Common contexts include transferring money between accounts, sending files over a network, or transferring ownership or responsibility.

See also: banköverföring, filöverföring, dataöverföring, överföring. The term is widely understood in Swedish-speaking contexts and is integral to everyday commerce, IT, and administrative language.