svett
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From past participle of Old Norse sveitast
Adjective
svett (neuter singular svett, definite singular and plural svette, comparative svettere, indefinite superlative svettest, definite superlative svetteste)
Etymology 2
Swedish
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Declension
| Inflection of svett | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | svett | — | — |
| Neuter singular | svett | — | — |
| Plural | svetta | — | — |
| 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. | |||
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-.
Declension
| Declension of svett | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | svett | svetten | — | — |
| Genitive | svetts | svettens | — | — |
Related terms
- svettas
- svettfläck
References
- svett in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
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