Swedish–English dictionary

studsmatta

A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric or rubber stretched over a (usually steel) frame using many coiled springs as anchors.

stuga

A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

stuka

(agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).

stukning

An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. [from 16th c.]

stulen

(slang) Stolen. [from the 20th c.]

stum

Not having the power of speech; dumb. [from 15th c.]

stump

Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.

stund

An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.

stunda

(intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.

stundom

(idiomatic) Occasionally; sometimes; once in a while.

stuns

Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

stunt

A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

stuntman

In films, someone who performs stunts that are deemed too dangerous or physically difficult for the main actors to attempt.

stup

The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.

stupa

(intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.

stupor

A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly, symptom) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.

stuprör

The drainpipe that connects a roof-line gutter with the ground.

stupstock

A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.

stuss

The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

stut

A castrated bull; an ox.

stuva

(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

stuvare

A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work. [from 18th c.]

stuveriarbetare

(US) A man employed to load and unload ships; any person thus employed.

stuvning

(uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing. [from 18th c.]

styck

For one; apiece; per.

stycka

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

styckare

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

stycke

A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.

styckindela

(transitive) To sort text into paragraphs.

stygg

Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). [from 17th c.]

styggelse

(countable) A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing. [Mid 18th century.]

stygging

(informal, chiefly, childish) A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.

stygisk

(Greek mythology) Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.

stygn

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

styltlöpare

Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills.

stympa

To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

stympning

The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.

styngflugelarv

The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.

styra

To manage, control, steer.

styrbord

The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.

styre

(mostly, in the plural) The bar used to steer a bicycle, motorbike, or similar vehicle using the hands.

styrekonom

(business) The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.

styrelse

A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

styrelseordförande

A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

styrelserum

The room where a group of people (especially the board of a company or organization) conducts its meetings

styrhytt

An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.

styrka

(transitive) To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.

styrman

(nautical) An officer on a merchant ship next in rank to the captain and responsible to the captain for the safety and security of the ship.

styrning

(grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents.

styrsel

The state of being steady.

styrspak

A mechanical control device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.

styv

Stiff, rather than flexible.

styv-

A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is not a blood relative but is related through the marriage of a parent.

styvbror

The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.

styvdotter

The daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.

styvfader

(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.

styvfar

(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.

styvna

(intransitive) To become stiff.

styvpappa

(in the narrow sense) The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.

styvson

The son of one's spouse from a previous relationship.

styvsyster

The daughter of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.

subatomär

(physics) Relating to particles that are constituents of the atom, or are smaller than an atom; such as proton, neutron, electron, etc.

subba

(derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.

subglacial

Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.

subkommitté

A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.

subkutan

Pertaining to the fatty layer under the skin.

sublimation

(chemistry) The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase. [from late 14th c.]

sublimering

(chemistry) The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase. [from late 14th c.]

subliminal

(physiology) Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally) , below the threshold where a response can be produced. [from late 19th c.]

sublimitet

(uncountable) The quality or state of being sublime.

subrutin

(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

subsidiär

Auxiliary or supplemental.

substans

Physical matter; material.

substantiv

(grammar, narrowly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

substitut

A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

substitution

The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.

subtilitet

The quality of being done in a clever way that is not obvious or not direct; the quality of being carefully thought out. (of things)

subtrahera

(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.

subvention

Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.

subventionera

(transitive) To assist (someone or something) by granting a subsidy.

subversiv

Intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase.

succé

The achievement of one's aim or goal. [from 16th c.]

succuba

(medieval folklore) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.

succubus

(medieval folklore) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.

suck

An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.

sucka

(intransitive) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.

suckulent

A succulent plant.

Sudan

Republic of the Sudan, since 1955

sudanes

A person from Sudan or of Sudanese descent.

sudanesisk

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Sudan, or the Sudanese people.

sudansk

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Sudan, or the Sudanese people.

sudd

(North America, Philippines) An object used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.

suddgummi

(North America, Philippines) An object used to erase or remove something written or drawn by a pen or a pencil.

suddig

Out of focus; partially obscured; smudged.

suddighet

(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.

sudoku

(games) A type of pencil puzzle played on a square grid, requiring each of the columns, each of the rows, and each of the subregions (called "boxes" or "regions") to contain the lowest whole numbers up to the dimension of the puzzle, usually 1 to 9, once each. The subregions are rectangular or square except in variants.

suffix

(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

sufflé

A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).

sufflera

(transitive, theater, and, television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

sufflör

(theater) The person who does the prompting.

suffragett

(historical) A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.

suga

A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

suga i

(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in. [first attested in the early 17th century.]

suga till

(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in. [first attested in the early 17th century.]

suga upp

(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in. [first attested in the early 17th century.]

sugare

A thing that works by sucking something.

sugmärke

(originally, US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking. [from 1934]

sugning

The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.

sugymp

A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

suicidal

(of a person) Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.

sukiyaki

A Japanese dish of thinly-sliced beef and tofu with dashi, mirin and soy sauce cooked quickly at the table.

sukta

(intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.

sukta efter

(ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

sula

Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.

sulfat

(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of sulfuric acid.

sulfit

(American spelling, inorganic chemistry) Any salt of sulfurous acid.

sulfur-

(American spelling, chemistry) Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its higher oxidation state

sulky

(US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.

sultan

A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, Morocco (until 1957) or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.

Sumatra

The largest island entirely in Indonesia and the world’s sixth largest island.

sumerisk

Of, from or pertaining to Sumer.

sumeriska

Of, from or pertaining to Sumer.

summa

(mathematics) The sequence of partial sums \sum_{i=1}^n{a_i} of a given sequence ai.

summa summarum

As a summary; as a shortened version of what has been told or what would have been told.

summariskt

(manner) In a summary manner.

summera

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

summering

A meeting to share a concise summary of a current situation, especially in close preparation for an operation or undertaking.

sumobrottare

(countable, colloquial) A rikishi (sumo wrestler).

sumobrottning

(uncountable) A stylised Japanese form of wrestling in which a wrestler loses if he is forced from the ring, or if any part of his body except the soles of his feet touches the ground.

sump

(fishing) A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.

sumpkrokodil

A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

sumpmark

Marshy land; bog or fen.

sund

A narrow body of water between two land masses.

sundae

(originally, US) A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings.

sunkhak

(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.

Sunna

(Norse goddess) The sun goddess.

sunnan

A wind blowing from the south.

sunnanvind

A wind blowing from the south. [from 10th c.]

sunt förnuft

Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.

supa

(slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.

super

Better than average, better than usual; wonderful.

super-

beyond, over, or upon

superdator

(computing) Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its generation.

superhjälte

Any fictional crime-fighting character, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature; a fictional hero who does great things.

superkraft

(countable, originally, fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.

superlativ

(grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully).

supermakt

(countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.

supermodell

A highly paid, famous fashion model.

supernova

(star) A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.

superskurk

A fantasy-fiction criminal or evil-doer, often with supernatural powers or equipment, in popular children's and fantasy literature who can present a credible challenge for a superhero.