Swedish–English dictionary

däcka

(informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.

dåd

(countable) Something done, a deed.

dädan

(formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

dadel

The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. [from 14th c.]

dag

(idiomatic) Someone who takes after one of their parents; (generally) a person similar to another.

dagas

(intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

dagbok

(accounting) A chronological record of payments or receipts.

dagbräckning

The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light

dagdriva

(intransitive) To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

dagdrömma

(intransitive) To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

dagen efter

Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.

dagfjäril

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

dagg

(uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.

dägga

(transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.

däggdjur

An animal of the class Mammalia.

daggmask

A worm that lives in the ground.

daghem

A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work. Generally more entertaining and less educational than a preschool, but with longer hours of operation.

dagis

(North America, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school. [from 1852]

dagjämning

One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.

daglig

That occurs every day, or at least every working day.

dagligen

quotidianly, every day

dagning

The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.

dagordning

A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).

dagpenning

A daily stipend.

dags

Close to the right time.

dags-

Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.

dagslända

A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

dagsländelik

Ephemeral or relatively short-lived.

dagstidning

A newspaper or comic strip etc. that is published every day.

dagtid

Pertaining to daytime; appropriate to the day.

dagtinga

To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.

dagtraktamente

A daily stipend.

dagvatten

That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.

dahlia

Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

daimyo

(historical) A lord during the Japanese feudal period.

daiquiri

A cocktail of rum, lemon or lime juice and sugar, sometimes with fruit added.

dajmkryss

(anatomy) The orifice of the rectum in most mammals, teleost fish, and many invertebrates, through which feces and flatus are ejected.

daktyl

A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.

dal

(mainly, Britain, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

dålig

(semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.

dålig andedräkt

(medicine, dentistry, informal) Breath that produces an unpleasant or foul-smelling odor when exhaled.

dålig vana

Bad or immoral behaviour.

dåligt

In a bad manner.

dåligt humör

A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

dalmatin

One of a breed of dog with a short, white coat with dark spots.

dalmatiner

One of a breed of dog with a short, white coat with dark spots.

dalmatiska

An extinct Romance language that was once spoken in Dalmatia.

dalsänka

(geography) A small valley between mountains.

dalta

(transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.

Dam

(sports) Clipping of women's team (used in club names, as in [Club Name] Women)

damask

(often, in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.

Damaskus

The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE.

damen

A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

Damer

(sports) Clipping of women's team (used in club names, as in [Club Name] Women)

damm

An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.

damma

(intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.

dammbyggnad

A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.

damp

(informal) as of or relating to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

dämpa

(figurative) To absorb or deaden the impact of.

dämpad

Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.

dämpare

A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.

damspel

(board games, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.

damtoalett

(historical) A waiting room in a railway station or other public building intended exclusively for women and usually including a separate women's lavatory.

damunderkläder

Underwear or nightclothes (typically women's), especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

dån

Any weed of the genus Galeopsis in the Lamiaceae family.

dåna

(by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.

dängare

(music, slang) A powerfully energetic and/or very good song, especially in hip-hop and dance music.

dångel

(computer hardware) Any small device that plugs into an electronic device, typically a computer, and alters its functionality. Common examples include wireless modems, digital media players, software copy protect devices, and adapters.

Danmark

A country in Northern Europe. Capital and largest city: Copenhagen; the metropole of the sovereign nation of the same name.

dans

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

dansa

(intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

dansande

The activity of taking part in a dance.

dansare

(dance) A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.

dansdräkt

A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)

danserska

(dance) A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.

dansk

A person of Danish descent.

danska

A person of Danish descent.

dansös

(dance) A person who dances, usually as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession.

danssalong

A large room used for dancing and banquets.

Danzig

Gdańsk (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Prussia or Germany).

där

(location) In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).

där bak

(nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way. [First attested in the late 17th century.]

dåraktig

(of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.

dåraktighet

Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.

dåre

(slang) A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man. [from 1910s]

därefter

After that, from then on; thenceforth.

däremot

(conjunctive) Nevertheless; yet, still; in spite of that.

därför

(conjunctive) In natural sequence; consequently; so.

därför att

By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

dårhus

(obsolete) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.

däribland

Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.

Darieios

Any of several kings in Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, 6th to 4th century BCE.

därifrån

(formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

därigenom

(formal) By it; by that; by that means, or as a consequence of that.

därinne

Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.

Darius

Any of several kings in Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, 6th to 4th century BCE.

darkroom

A darkened room where sexual activity can take place, especially one in a gay club.

därmed

(formal) By it; by that; by that means, or as a consequence of that.

därpå

(temporal location) Soon afterward.

darra

(intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.

dårrepe

Any of genus Lolium of grasses, especially as a weed in wheat fields.

dårskap

Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.

dart

(games, sports) A game or sport in which darts are thrown at a board, and points are scored depending on where the darts land.

därutöver

In addition; besides; further; what's more (i.e. to denote additional information).

darwinism

The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

dåsa

(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.

dask

A blow administered with a whip.

daska

(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.

dass

Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the family Procaviidae from the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East.

dasspapper

(North America, informal, mildly, vulgar, offensive, or, derogatory) An annoying, contemptible, or worthless person.

däst

Swollen with fluid or gas.

databas

(general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.

databasprogram

(computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.

datamaskin

A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media. [from 20th c.]

datavirus

(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.

datera

(transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

datering

The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

dåtid

The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

datja

A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.

dator

(computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.

datorisering

The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.

datormoln

(informal, computing) Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

datorspråk

(computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.

datorvirus

(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.

datt

(slang) A person's name.

datten

The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.

datum

The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

dåvarande

Being so at that time.

däven

No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.

Davidsson

A suburb of the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

de

Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.

de äldre

(with, definite article, collective) Older people as a whole.

de facto

In actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.

de jure

Legal; justified by right or by law, especially when in name only.

de-

reversal, undoing

deaktiverad

Made incapable of use or action.

debacle

(figurative) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. [from early 19th c.]

debattera

(ambitransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]

debet

In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.

debil

(medicine, dated) Having a mental age of between seven and twelve years.

debitera

(transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.

debut

A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.

debutera

(intransitive) to make one's initial formal appearance

december

The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.

decennium

A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]

dechiffrera

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

decimal

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

decimalsystem

(countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

decimering

(Ancient Rome, strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.

deckare

(slang, North America) A detective. [from early 20th c.]