Swedish–English dictionary

tvång

Constraint by threat.

tvångsarbetsanstalt

(US) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.

tvångsmässig

Uncontrolled or reactive and irresistible.

tvångströja

A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.

tvärband

(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.

tvärbjälke

(construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

tvärhand

(chiefly, in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.

tvärs över

At or near the far end of (a space).

tvärsäker

Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful.

tvärstång

A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.

tvärtom

(usually, humorous, emphatic) On the contrary.

tvärträ

A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.

tvätt

Laundry that has recently been ironed.

tvätta

To wash the laundry.

tvättbjörn

An omnivorous, nocturnal mammal native to the Americas, of the genus Procyon, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail.

tvätteri

A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

tvätterska

A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.

tvättfat

A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.

tvättmaskin

Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.

tvättmedel

Any non-soap cleaning agent, especially a synthetic surfactant.

tvättomat

A place that has facilities for washing and drying clothes that the public may pay to use.

tvättställ

A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face.

tvättstuga

A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.

tvättsvamp

(countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).

tvåvinge

(non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).

tvehågsen

Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.

tveka

(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

tvekan

(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.

tveklös

Characterized by or experiencing no doubt at all, certain; undoubted; undoubting.

tveklöst

Without doubt; certainly; definitely; very probably, in all likelihood; doubtlessly.

tveksam

Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.

tveljus

The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

tvestjärt

Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.

tvetydig

Open to multiple interpretations.

tvetydighet

(countable) An instance of this state: words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from the context.

tvilling

Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.

tvina

(intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.

tvinga

(transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.

tvinna

(transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.

tvinnad

(of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).

tvist

Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.

tvistepunkt

(countable) A disagreement or argument.

tvittra

(ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter. [since 2007]

tvivel

(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.

tvivelaktig

(by extension) Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend.

tvivelsutan

Without doubt; definitely.

tvivla

(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

twittra

(ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter. [since 2007]

ty

(formal, literary) Because.

tycka

(transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.

tycka annorlunda

(intransitive, people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree.

tycka om

(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.

tyckas

(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

tycke

A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.

tyda

(transitive) To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

tydlig

Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.

tydligen

Seemingly; in appearance.

tydliggöra

(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.

tydlighet

The property of being lucid; lucidness.

tyfon

(in particular) A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.

tyfus

(pathology) Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

tyg

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

tygel

A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.

tygla

(transitive) To direct or stop a horse by using reins.

tygrulle

A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

tygstycke

(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

tyll

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

tympan

(architecture) A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated

tympanon

(architecture) A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated

tyna

(intransitive, figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.

tyna bort

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. [from 14th c.]

tynga

(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.

tyngande

That weighs or burdens.

tyngd

A metal weight attached to the end of a plumb line.

tyngdkraft

(physics) The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all matter in the universe, caused by the curvature of spacetime caused by matter. It is the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, and possesses a gauge boson known as the graviton.

tyngdlös

Not affected by gravity.

tyngdlöshet

(countable) An experience or instance of being weightless.

typ

Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.

typisk

Typical.

typograf

One who makes prints.

typografi

The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.

typsnitt

(typography) The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.

typvärde

(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.

Tyr

(Norse mythology) The Norse god of war, identifiable with Tiu or Tiw.

tyrann

A despot; a ruler who governs unjustly, cruelly, or harshly.

tyranni

A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power, or this system of government; especially, one that acts cruelly and unjustly.

tyrannisera

(transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

tyrannisk

(not comparable) Of, or relating to tyranny or a tyrant.

tyrannosaurie

Any large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus Tyrannosaurus, found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.

tyrannosaurus

Any large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus Tyrannosaurus, found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.

Tyrolen

A geographic region in Central Europe including the state of Tyrol in Austria and the regions of South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy.

Tyros

A city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.

tysk

Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent; to their cultures.

tyska

Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent; to their cultures.

Tyskland

A country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany. Capital and largest city: Berlin.

tyskspråkig

Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent; to their cultures.

tyst

With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.

tyst!

(imperative) Be silent.

tysta

(transitive) To silence, to make quiet.

tysta ner

(transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.

tystlåten

reticent, secretive or uncommunicative

tystna

(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.

tystnad

The absence of sound; quietness.

tyvärr

Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.

ubåt

(watercraft) A boat that can go underwater.

ubikvitet

(uncountable) The state or quality of being, or appearing to be, everywhere at once; actual or perceived omnipresence.

Ubsola

A city and municipality in eastern central Sweden; the fourth largest city of the country.

udd

A sharp point or pointed end.

udda

(maths, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.

udde

(geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.

uddrim

The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.

ufo

Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.]

Uganda

A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.

uggla

Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. [from 8th c.]

ugn

(countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).

Ukraina

A country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea. Capital and largest city: Kyiv.

ukrainare

A citizen of Ukraine or a person of Ukrainian ethnicity.

ukrainsk

Relating to Ukraine or its people or language.

ukrainska

Relating to Ukraine or its people or language.

ukulele

A small four-stringed guitar.

Ulaanbaatar

The capital city of Mongolia.

ulan

(historical) A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian or German, Austrian, and Russian armies.

Ulan Bator

The capital city of Mongolia.

ull

The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

ullig

Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.

ultimat

(not comparable) Final; last in a series.

ultimatum

(diplomacy) A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses a threat of reprisal or war if the terms are not met before some specified date and time.

ultraljud

(physics) Sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, which is approximately 20 kilohertz.

ultramarin

Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).

ultraviolett

Of electromagnetic radiation beyond (higher in frequency than) light visible to the human eye; radiation with wavelengths from 380 to 10 nanometres.

ulv

Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.

Ulysses

(Greek mythology) The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey.

um

Denotes singular grammatical number.

umami

One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.

umgängesrätt

(uncountable, legal) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.

umgås

(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.

undan

Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.

undangömd

Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.

undanröja

(transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.

undantag

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A dwelling detached from a primary residence, traditionally designated for a member of an extended family to live in.

undantagen

Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.

undantagsfall

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

under

In or to a lower place.

under däck

(nautical) On or to a lower deck, especially as relative to the main deck.

under hela

For all of a given time interval; throughout; in; pending.

under tiden

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

under-

Under, beneath.

underårig

(legal) A minor.

underarm

(anatomy) The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.

underavdelning

A defined part of a section.