Danish–English dictionary

faktor

(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

faktori

(historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. [from 16th c.]

faktorisere

(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).

faktotum

(dated) A general servant.

faktuel

Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.

faktum

Something actual as opposed to invented.

faktura

(computing) To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.

fakturere

(transitive) To bill; to issue an invoice to.

fakultet

(mathematics, combinatorics) The result of multiplying a given number of consecutive integers from 1 to the given number. In equations, it is symbolized by an exclamation mark (!). For example, 5! = 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 = 120.

falafel

(uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.

falaffel

(countable) A single falafel ball.

falafler

(uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.

falbyde

(transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.

fald

An actual event, situation, or fact.

falde

(transitive, ergative, also, figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on). [from 14th c.]

falde på halen-komik

(uncountable, comedy) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.

falde til ro

(transitive) To relieve (someone or someone's mind) of stress; to enable to rest; to calm down.

falde tilbage

(intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.

faldefærdig

Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.

falden

Having lost one's chastity.

faldende syge

(pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.

faldet

Killed, especially in battle.

faldgrube

(figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.

faldlem

(mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; a weather door.

faldskærm

(aviation) A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.

faldskærmsjæger

A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft.

faldskærmssoldat

A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft.

falk

Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

fallit

(finance, of a person, company, etc.) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent. [from 1565]

falme

(intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

falmet

That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.

fals

A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a plank of wood or other material; especially, one intended to fit another member to form a joint.

falsk

Not honourable; unworthy of honour.

falsk forklaring

(legal) The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.

falsk spor

(figuratively) A clue, information, argument, etc. that is or is intended to be misleading, diverting attention from the real answer or issue.

fåmandsvælde

A government run by and for only a few, often the aristocracy, the wealthy, or their friends and associates.

fåmælt

Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

familie

A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

familie-

A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

familieforsørger

The primary income-earner in a household.

familiemedlem

A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.

familienavn

The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s).

famle

(transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.

fan

A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.

fanatiker

A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause.

fanatisk

Fanatical.

fanatisme

The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.

Fanden

(religion) The supreme evil spirit in the Abrahamic religions, who tempts humanity into sin; the Devil; (Theistic Satanism) the same figure, regarded as a deity to be revered and worshipped.

fane

(internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.

fanebånd

A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

faneflugt

The act of deserting.

fang dagen

Enjoy the present, make the most of today, (common mistranslation) seize the day.

fangarm

(zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

fange

One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.

fangekælder

An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.

fangeleg

(slang) A person's name.

fangenskab

A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

fangst

(countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.

Fanny

A diminutive of the en given name Frances, itself also becoming a given name.

fantasi

(music, also, figurative) A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces. [from early 18th c.]

fantasifuld

Unreal or imagined.

fantast

An impractical dreamer.

fantastisk

(colloquial, North America, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

fantasy

(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.

fantom

Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.

far

A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).

farao

(historical) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty

farbror

A brother or brother-in-law of one's father. (This entry is a translation hub.)

fare

(intransitive) To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.

fare sammen

(intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.

fårehyrde

(countable) A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

fårekylling

An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.

fåret

Having the characteristics of a sheep, as meekness, shyness, or docility.

faret vild

Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.

farisæisk

Self-righteous.

farkost

A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.

farlig

Threatening; dangerous.

farmaceut

A person who makes up prescriptions, such as an optician or pharmacist.

farmaceutisk

(medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) Of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists.

farmaci

(uncountable) The science of medicinal substances, inclusive of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, and forensics.

farmand

(slang, obsolete) The person who gives away the bride at a wedding, in the absence of her actual father.

Fårö

A Baltic Sea island just north of the Swedish island of Gotland.

fars

(cooking) An emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.

farsbrød

A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.

farseret

Full or packed (with some material or substance).

fartøj

(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.

farve

These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).

farve-

Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

farve-vau

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

farvefast

(of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent. [from 17th c.]

farvel

Goodbye; vale.

farveløs

(archaic) White or pale; without colour.

farvereseda

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

farverig

(dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.

farvespredning

(optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.

farvestof

A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

farvet

(South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.

farvetone

These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).

fasan

(countable) A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.

fascinerende

In a breathtaking manner.

fascist

A proponent of fascism.

fast

(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

fast ejendom

(US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground on which they are built.

fastboende

A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.

faste

(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

faster

The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

fastgøre

(ambitransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.

fasthed

(uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

fastholdelse

The act of retaining or something retained.

fastland

The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.

fastnøgle

(Commonwealth, UK, Irish) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

fastsat

Intent, determined (to do something).

fastsætte

(transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

fastsættelse

Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.

fastslå

(transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.

fåtal

(grammar) A language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular, dual, trial, and plural.

fattigdom

The quality or state of being poor; lack of money

fattige

(with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

fattigfolk

(with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

fattighus

A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged.

fattiglem

One who is extremely poor.

fattiglus

One who is extremely poor.

fauna

(uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. [from late 18th c.]

favn

(chiefly, nautical, historical, US) A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.

fax

A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

faxe

To send a document via a fax machine.

fæ

(pejorative) A fool, an idiot.

fædreland

The country of one's ancestors.

fægte

(intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.

fægter

A participant in the sport of fencing.

fægtning

The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).

fæl

Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. [first attested around 1150 to 1350]

fælde

(figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.

fælde tårer

(transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

fælg

An edge around something, especially when circular.

fælge

A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.

fælled

A tract of land in common ownership; common land.

fælles

Combined (by effort or ownership).

fælles bedste

(figuratively) The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.

fælles gode

Mutual good, shared by more than one.

fælleskøn

(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.

fællesmængde

(set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.

fællesnavn

A noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city; contrasted with a proper noun, which refers to a single named entity, such as Socrates or Tokyo.

fællesskab

A company of people that share the same interest or aim.

fængdelsdirektør

A chief administrative officer of a prison.

fænge

(transitive) To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).

fængende

(of a tune or phrase) Instantly appealing and memorable.

fænghætte

a metal cap found on muzzleloading firearms that contains chemical substances such as fulminate that explode upon impact

fængsel

A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

fængselsfugl

A prisoner or an ex-prisoner