svett
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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From past participle of Old Norse sveitast.
Adjective
[edit]svett (neuter singular svett, definite singular and plural svette, comparative svettere, indefinite superlative svettest, definite superlative svetteste)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]svett
- imperative of svette
References
[edit]- “svett” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-.
Noun
[edit]svett c
Declension
[edit]Declension of svett | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | svett | svetten | — | — |
Genitive | svetts | svettens | — | — |
Derived terms
[edit]- handsvett
- fotsvett
- i sitt anletes svett (“by the sweat of one's brow”)
Related terms
[edit]- svettas
- svettig
- svettfläck (“sweat stain”)
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]svett (not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of svett | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | svett | — | — |
Neuter singular | svett | — | — |
Plural | svetta | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | svette | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | svette | — | — |
All | svetta | — | — |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Synonyms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]svett
References
[edit]- svett in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- svett in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- svett in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål adjectives
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish adjectives
- Swedish colloquialisms
- Swedish uncomparable adjectives
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish verb forms
- sv:Bodily fluids