Swedish–English dictionary

åksjuk

Dizzy or feeling nauseated due to riding in a vehicle; suffering from motion sickness.

akt

(countable) Something done, a deed.

äkta

Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

äkta hälft

A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic or sexual bond.

äkta kanel

Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).

äkta maka

A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

äkta make

A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

äkta malört

An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.

akta och ära

(transitive) To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.

akta sig (för)

(defective, ambitransitive) To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of).

äktenskap

(countable) The act or state of marriage.

äktenskaplig

Of or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.

äktenskapsbrott

(narrowly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry

äktenskapsbrytare

(broadly) One who commits adultery.

äktenskapsbryterska

(broadly) One who commits adultery.

äktenskapsmäklare

Someone who finds suitable dates or marriage partners for other people.

äktenskapsskillnad

The legal dissolution of a marriage.

akter

The rear, back-end.

akterlik

(nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.

akteröver

(nautical) At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).

akterut

(nautical) At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).

aktie

(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

aktieägare

One who owns shares of stock in a corporation.

aktiebolag

A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

aktiemäklare

(finance) A person who buys and sells shares (stock) on a stock exchange on behalf of clients. May also provide investment advice and/or company information, depending on the level of service offered (or chosen by the client).

aktig

In the style or manner of; appended to nouns, especially proper nouns, and forming adjectives.

aktin

(protein, uncountable) A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament).

aktion

Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.

aktiv

(grammar, uncountable) The form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action.

aktiv om natten

(of a person, creature, group, or species) Primarily active during the night.

aktivera

(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.

aktivism

The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.

aktivist

One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.

aktivitet

(uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.

aktivt

In an active manner.

aktning

Great respect.

aktningsfull

Respectful and considerate; showing deference.

aktör

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

aktris

A person who acts a part in a theatrical play or (later) in film or television; a dramatic performer. [from 16th c.]

aktualisera

(transitive) To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.

aktuarie

A professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions.

aktuell

(now, rare) in action at the time being; now existing; current. [from 18th c.]

åktur

A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

akupressur

(uncountable) An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.

akupunktur

The insertion of needles into the (living) tissue of the body affecting the Qi or energy along energetic pathways of the body called meridians. This modality is traditionally used as a form of internal medical treating all disease and illnesses, in Western countries it is widely used for the purposes of pain relief.

akustik

(usually, in the plural) The properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it.

akutvårdare

A person trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions for victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and prepare them for transport to a medical facility.

åkväda

(ambitransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.

akvamarin

Of a bluish-green colour.

akvatisk

Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.

al

(organic chemistry) Forms the names of aldehydes.

alabaster

A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

aladåb

A meat or fish jelly.

Alarik

A historic king of the Visigoths.

alaskier

A native or resident of the state of Alaska in the United States of America.

alaskisk

Of or pertaining to Alaska, its people, or their culture.

Alban

A en given name.

Albanien

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania. Capital and largest city: Tirana. [from ca. 1503]

albansk

Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language. [from 1593]

albanska

Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language. [from 1593]

Albert

A en given name.

Alberta

A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.

Albin

A en given name.

albino

Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.

albino-

Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.

Albion

(now, poetic) Great Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles).

ald

Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.

ålder

(countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).

ålderdom

(uncountable) The state of being old; the latter part of life.

ålderdomlig

Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

ålderism

The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.

åldersbestämma

(transitive) To determine the age of something.

åldersdiskriminering

The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.

ålderspresident

The senior member of some group of people.

ålderstigen

Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.

åldrande

The process of becoming older or more mature.

åldras

(intransitive) To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.

äldre

older, greater than another in age or seniority.

aldrig

At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.

åldring

(uncommon) An elderly person.

äldst till tjänsteåren

The senior member of some group of people.

ale

A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.

aleatorisk

Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance.

alert

Attentive; awake; on guard.

Alexander

A en given name, most famously held by Alexander the Great.

Alexandra

A en given name.

alf

(Germanic mythology) A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and harmful or dangerous magical influence; in later Norse sources, sometimes divided into benevolent light elves (inhabiting Álfheimr) and malevolent dark elves.

alfa

The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.

alfabetisera

(US, Canada, transitive) To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.

alfabetisk

According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.

alfabetiskt

(manner) In an alphabetical manner.

alfahanne

(zoology, ethology) The dominant male in a group of animals.

alfanumerisk

Consisting of, or limited to, letters and/or numbers, especially the characters A to Z (lowercase and uppercase) and 0 to 9.

Alfons

A en given name.

Alfred

A en given name.

älg

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

algebraiker

A mathematician who specializes in algebra.

Alger

The capital and largest city of Algeria.

algerier

A person from Algeria or of Algerian descent.

Algeriet

A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers. [from 1575]

algerisk

Of, from, or pertaining to Algeria or the Algerian people.

algeriska

A person from Algeria or of Algerian descent.

algoritmisk

(mathematics, computing) Of, relating to, or being an algorithm.

alias

Another name; especially, an assumed name.

aliasa

(computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.

Alice

A en given name popular in England since the Middle Ages.

alifatisk

(organic chemistry) Of a class of organic compounds in which the carbon atoms are arranged in an open chain.

åliggande

A professional or official position.

alimentär

Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion.

alkali

(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.

alkalie

(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.

alkalinitet

(chemistry) The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.

alkalisk

Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases.

alkan

(organic compound) Any acyclic saturated hydrocarbon (methane, ethane, etc.).

alkemi

(uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

alkemisk

(alchemy) Of or pertaining to the medieval chemical science and philosophy of alchemy.

alkemist

One who practices alchemy.

alkis

A person who is addicted to alcohol.

alkohol

Alcoholic beverages in general.

alkohol-

Of or pertaining to alcohol.

alkoholförgiftning

A high blood level of alcohol, toxic enough to injure or kill a person.

alkoholhalt

A measure of the alcoholic content of something

alkoholhaltig

Of or pertaining to alcohol.

alkoholism

A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.

alkoholist

A person who is addicted to alcohol.

alkov

(architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

all

Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).

all-

Indicates complete power or authority in an area.

alla

Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).

alla tiders

Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.

Allah

(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

Allan

A en given name.

allaredan

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

allätare

An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).

alldeles

In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.

alldenstund

Because of the fact that; since.

allé

The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

allegori

(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.

allena

(obsolete) Unique; rare; matchless.

allesammans

Every person.

allestädes närvarande

Being everywhere simultaneously.

allestädesnärvaro

The ability to be, or the characteristic of being, at all places at the same time (usually only attributed to God).

alliera

To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.

allierad

Joined as allies.

alligator

Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.

allihop

All people.

allihopa

All people.

älling

A young duck.

allitteration

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.

allmakt

(Christianity) God.