Swedish–English dictionary

skyla

(transitive) To cover as with or like a cloak.

skyla över

To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies. [from 17th c.]

skyldig

Obligated, especially financially.

skyldighet

(countable, uncountable) That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.

Skylla

A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.

skyltdocka

A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes.

skyltfönster

A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.

skyltvakt

A sentry, watch, or guard.

skymf

An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

skymfa

(transitive) To insult intentionally, especially openly.

skymfande

Marked by harsh abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing.

skymfning

Criticism or invective that is sustained and overly harsh; abuse, severe blame or censure.

skymma

(transitive) To obscure.

skymning

The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

skymt

Chiefly followed by of: a brief and incomplete look.

skymta

To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.

skynda

Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

skynda på

Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

skynke

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

skysås

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

skyskrapa

(architecture) A very tall building with a large number of floors. [from 1880s]

skytt

(astrology) Someone with a Sagittarius star sign.

skyttegrav

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

skyttelbuss

A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.

skytteltrafik

A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.

Skytten

(astrology) Someone with a Sagittarius star sign.

slå

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

slå emot

(transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

slå en backhand

To execute a backhand stroke or throw.

slå ett backhandslag

To execute a backhand stroke or throw.

slå följe med

(transitive) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

slå hål

(transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).

slå i

(transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

slå igen

(ambitransitive) To stop trading as a business.

slå in

(transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

slå läger

To set up a camp.

slå lock

(intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.

slå med lie

(transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [from 1590s]

slå mynt av

(intransitive, followed by on) To seize, as an opportunity; to obtain a benefit from; to invest on something profitable.

slå ned

To bring down (someone) mentally or physically; to lower (someone) in status. [14th–17th c.]

slå ner på

(transitive, colloquial, originally, US) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.

slå ner sig

(also, figuratively) Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.

slå på stort

(ambitransitive) To spend lavishly or extravagantly, especially money. [from 1911]

slå samman

(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.

slå slint

(idiomatic, transitive) To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.

slå till

(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

slå vad

(transitive, ditransitive) To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

släcka

To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

släcka ut

(transitive) To offset or equalize something.

släckare

One who, or that which, extinguishes something.

släckt

(dated) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.

sladd

A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.

sladda

(intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.

sladdbarn

(informal, often, in combination) A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.

sladder

(uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially about someone not present.

sladdertacka

(countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.

sladdlös

Having no cord; especially using batteries instead of mains electricity. [1905]

sladdrig

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.

släde

The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.

slående

Obvious or easy to notice.

slag

(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.

slaga

A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.

slaganfall

(by extension) The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.

slagbom

(weaving) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.

slagfält

The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.

slagg

Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.

slägga

An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy steel ball attached with wire (maximum length 4 ft (1.22 m)) to a handle.

släggyxa

A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.

slagkraft

(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

slagkraftig

Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.

slaglängd

The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.

slagljus

(by extension) The circle of light shed by a spotlight.

slagman

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

slagord

(advertising) A catchphrase associated with a product or service being advertised.

slagskämpe

A person who fights; a combatant.

slagsmål

A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

slagträ

A long instrument, typically wood, metal, or plastic, which is swung to strike baseballs.

slagverkare

A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training.

slak

Soft; floppy.

släkt

Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.

slakta

(transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

slaktare

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

slaktavfall

The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

slaktbiprodukt

The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

slaktbiprodukter

The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

släkte

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. [from 14th c.]

slakteri

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]

släktforskning

(uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

slakthus

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]

släkting

Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.

släktklenod

A valued possession that has been passed down through the generations.

släktnamn

(archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.

släktord

(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

släktskap

Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

slam

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

slampa

A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.

slampig

Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.

slända

The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.

sländtrissa

A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle. [from c. 1460]

slang

A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.

slänga

(chiefly, British, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

slänga ett öga

(informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

slangbella

(chiefly, American, AU, Philippines) A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.

slank

Slim but not skinny.

slänt

The side of a hill.

släntra

(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.

slantsingling

A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.

släp

An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc., that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.

släpa

(transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

släpfordon

An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc., that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.

släpigt tal

A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together, characteristic of some Southern US accents, as well as Broad Australian, Broad New Zealand, and Scots.

slapp

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.

släppa

(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.]

släppa in

(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

släppa ur

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

släppa ut

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

slappna av

(intransitive, slang) To relax or take time out; to calm down; reduce or go easy on something.

slapptask

(slang) A person who is lazy.

släpvagn

An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc., that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.

slarver

A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.

slarvig

Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. [from 16thc.]

slarvsylta

(by extension) Something or someone utterly destroyed.

slas

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

slask

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Northeast US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

slåss

(intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.

slät

Flat and level.

släta över

To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies. [from 17th c.]

slätt

An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.

slåtterkarl

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

slåttermaskin

A farm machine used in hay production (sickle mower, finger-bar mower).

slav

A member of any of the peoples of Europe who speak the Slavic languages.

slav-

Of or pertaining to a slave.

slava

(intransitive) To work hard.

slaveri

The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.

slavgöra

(colloquial, sometimes, pejorative) A typically entry-level job, often part-time or temporary, generally paying low wages and requiring minimal training, such as entry-level positions at fast-food restaurants.

slavhandlare

A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.

slavinna

A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

slavisk

Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

slavskepp

(nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.

slem

(US, slang) Any thick, disgusting liquid.

slemmig

Of or pertaining to slime

slemsäck

(anatomy) Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.

slentrian

Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.

slentrianmässig

Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.

slev

An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.

sleva

To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.

slick

The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

slickepinne

(motorsport) A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.

slida

The sheath of a sword.

slidhornsdjur

An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, cattle, goat, and sheep).