besvär

See also: besvar

Swedish[edit]

From besvära (“to bother, to burden (someone with something)”).

besvär n

a trouble, a problem
en liten tid vi leva här med mycken möda och stort besvär
a little time we live here with much effort and great trouble
an appeal, a complaint

Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.

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