blöt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "blot"

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish blø̄ter, from Old Norse blautr (“wet”), bleyta, from Proto-Germanic *blautaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlaw-.

Adjective

blöt (comparative blötare, superlative blötast)

1. wet (covered with or impregnated with liquid)

   Jag blev blöt när det regnade

   I got wet when it rained

2. (of weather) wet

   kallt och blött väder

   cold and wet weather

3. (of a social gathering or the like) including large amounts of alcohol

   en blöt fest

   a drunken/boozy party

   (literally, “a wet party”)

4. (obsolete outside certain expressions) soft

   blötdjur ― mollusc (literally, “soft animal”)

5. (colloquial, less common) soft; overly sensitive

   Near-synonym: blödig

   En får inte vara blöt

   One mustn't be soft

   From a well-known sketch.

Declension

Inflection of blöt

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	blöt	blötare	blötast
neuter singular	blött	blötare	blötast
plural	blöta	blötare	blötast
masculine plural2	blöte	blötare	blötast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	blöte	blötare	blötaste
all	blöta	blötare	blötaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

• blötdjur
• lägga näsan i blöt

See also

• dyngsur
• fuktig
• sur

Verb

blöt

1. imperative of blöta

References

• “blöt”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “blöt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “blöt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Volapük

Noun

blöt (genitive blöta, plural blöts)

1. breast

Declension

Declension of blöt

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	blöt	blöts
Genitive	blöta	blötas
Dative	blöte	blötes
Accusative	blöti	blötis
Predicative1	blötu	blötus
Vocative	o blöt	o blöts

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Further reading

• “blöt”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)