se ut

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Literally, look out. Perhaps a calque of Middle Low German ûtsēn. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sjå ut, Norwegian Bokmål se ut, Danish se ud, Dutch uitzien, Yiddish אויסזען (oyszen) and German aussehen. Same semantic construction as Russian выглядеть (vygljadetʹ), Polish wyglądać, Hungarian kinéz and modern Icelandic líta út.

Verb

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se ut (present ser ut, preterite såg ut, supine sett ut, imperative se ut)

  1. (intransitive) to look (a certain way)
    Du ser ledsen ut. Går det bra?
    You look sad. Are you alright?
    Du ser ut som Michael Jackson
    You look like Michael Jackson
    Han ser ut att inte gilla det
    He looks like he doesn't like it
    Det ser ut att regna imorgon
    It looks like (it will) rain tomorrow
    Så här ser ut!
    What a mess! / Would you look at this mess! ["How here looks!", implying awful is how it looks – idiomatic]
    1. to appear, to seem
      Det ser ut att fungera
      It seems to be working ("It looks to work")
  2. (transitive) to pick, to choose for future acquiring; to decide upon an item to buy later
    Vi har sett ut ett hus som vi vill köpa, om vi har råd.
    We have decided on a house that we'd like to buy, if we can afford it.

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