misshandlar

In a sentence

• Jag misshandlar inte någon, för det är fel.

  I do not assault anyone, because it is wrong.

  Here, 'misshandlar' is used in the first person present tense to mean committing an act of physical violence against someone.

• Polisen rapporterade att mannen misshandlade sin granne.

  The police reported that the man assaulted his neighbor.

  In this sentence, 'misshandlade' is the past tense form of the verb, describing an act of physical violence that has already occurred.

• Att misshandla någon är olagligt och omoraliskt.

  To assault someone is illegal and immoral.

  The word 'misshandla' is used in the infinitive form to discuss the act of assaulting as a general statement.