Danish–English dictionary

solodanser

(less common, non-standard) A male ballet dancer; Synonym of ballerino.

solopgang

(countable) The rising of the sun.

solsikke

A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.

solsort

A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.

solstik

(medicine) Heat stroke caused by an excessive exposure to the sun's rays.

solstrejf

(figurative) A favorable aspect or prospect of a mostly unfavorable event or situation.

solur

A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks.

som

To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.

som følge af

(Irish, Newfoundland, usually, preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity.

som ikke bruges mere

No longer in use.

som mangler selvtillid

(archaic) Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

som person

As a person.

som regel

(idiomatic) In general; most often.

som sådan

(philosophy) As the principle of its own determination and positing itself.

Somalia

A country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa. Official name: Federal Republic of Somalia. Capital and largest city: Mogadishu.

somme tider

On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always. [from 16th c.]

sommer

One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

sommerbolig

A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year.

sommerflue

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]

sommerfugl

A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]

sommerhus

A second home used for holidays.

sonate

(music) A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.

sonde

(medicine) A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.

sondere

To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

sondre

(transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.

sone

(ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. [from 1680s]

sonet

A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

sonisk

Of or relating to sound.

Sonja

A en given name.

sorbet

A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.

sorg

The state of being contrite; sincere penitence or remorse.

sorgfri

Without cares or worries; free of concern or worries; without difficulty.

sorgløs

Without cares or worries; free of concern or worries; without difficulty.

sort

Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.

sort får

(idiomatic) A person who is not wholesome, honest, or trustworthy.

sort stryger

(countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

sortere

(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

sortering

An act of sorting.

sortie

An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

sortliste

(legal, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

sortseer

Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.

Sortskæg

The archetypal pirate, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries.

soul

(music) Soul music.

soulmusik

(music) Soul music.

souvenir

An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

sove hos

To live (in or with); to shack up.

sovemiddel

(pharmaceutical drug) Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.

sovende

Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

sovesal

A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.

soveværelse

A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

sovjet

(historical) A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.

sovs

(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.

sø

(now, chiefly, dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

søbred

(sometimes, attributive) The shore of a lake.

sød

Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.

søde

(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

sødestof

Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.

sødet

(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.

sødlig

Of a pleasant smell.

sødt

In a pleasant manner.

sødygtig

(nautical) Fit for service at sea.

søfarer

One who travels by sea.

søfart

(uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.

søfyrbøder

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.

søgående

Made for, fit for sailing on, or used on the high seas.

søge

(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

søger

A device on a camera that shows what will appear in the field of view of the lens; it helps the user target a subject, zoom and focus the image.

søjle

(architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

søko

Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of the genus Trichechus, found in tropical regions.

sølle

Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak. [from 16th c.]

sølv

(tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

sølv-

(collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.

sølvbarre

A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

sølvfarve

(uncountable) A shiny gray color.

sølvfarvet

Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.

sølvmønt

(collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.

sølvpapir

(Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A very thin, pliable, easily torn sheet of aluminium used for cooking, packaging, cosmetics, and insulation.

sølvpenge

(collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.

sølvtøj

(collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.

søm

A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.

sømand

In particular, a member of the crew of a (civilian or military) vessel, as opposed to a captain, admiral, etc.; a mariner; a common seaman.

sømmelig

(informal) Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.

sømmelighed

The quality of being decent; propriety.

søn

Abbreviation of Sunday.

søndag

Sunday, observed in Christianity as a day of rest and worship.

sønderslå

(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.

sønlig

(not comparable) Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.

sønnedatter

The daughter of someone's child.

sønnesøn

A son of one's child.

søpapegøje

The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. [from 17th c.]

sørejse

A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

søreme

(modal) Truly; in fact; actually.

søren

(euphemistic) Hell.

sørens

(sometimes, vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt or surprise, etc. See also dammit.

sørgedigt

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]

sørgelig

To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.

sørgmodig

Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

sørgmodighed

(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.

sørøveri

(crime, nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.

søsætning

The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)

søsætte

(transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.

søskende

A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.

søster

A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.

søsterskab

A group of girls or women associated for a common purpose; a sisterhood.

søstersøn

A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).

søstjerne

(slang) A sexual partner who lies flat and unresponsive during sex.

søsyg

Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a ship at sea.

søsyge

Nausea, dizziness etc caused by the motion of a ship; a form of motion sickness.

søtunge

(fish) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.

søulk

(slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).

søværn

(countable) A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.

søvnløshed

(medicine) A sleeping disorder that is known for its symptoms of unrest and the inability to sleep.

spå

(transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.

spabad

(countable, often, in the plural) Spa water; hot springs.

spade

A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.

spådom

A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

spadsere

To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

spadseretur

A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.

spadsergang

An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.

spagat

(dance, cheerleading, gymnastics) A maneuver in which the legs are extended straight out and perpendicular to the body, either to the sides or in front and behind.

spaghetti

(countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

spåkvinde

Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer.

spalte

An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

spalteåbning

(botany) One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.

spalteafstand

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

spam

(uncountable, rarely, countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

spåmand

One who foretells the future.

spån

(countable) A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.

spand

Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

Spanien

A country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula. Official name: Kingdom of Spain. Capital and largest city: Madrid.

spanier

A person from Spain or of Spanish descent.

spaniol

A person from Spain or of Spanish descent.

spanioler

A person from Spain or of Spanish descent.

spankulere

(colloquial, figuratively) To strut about in a showy manner.

spansk

Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.

spanskrør

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

spar

(obsolete)

spare

(transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

sparepenge

(countable, usually, in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.

sparke

(transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

sparsomhed

Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

sparsommelig

Of something which is consumed (such as money, goods, etc.): Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.

sparsommelighed

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.

Sparta

An ancient city-state in southern Greece, noted for its strict military training.

Spartacus

A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.

spartaner

A citizen of Sparta; a native or inhabitant of Sparta.

spartansk

Of or relating to Sparta or its citizens.

spasere

(intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.

spasmager

A person who makes jokes.

spatel

(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.