Swedish–English dictionary

erfara

(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

erfaren

Having experience and skill in a subject.

erfarenhet

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

erforderlig

Essential, indispensable, required.

ergo

Consequently, therefore, or thus.

ergonomi

The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury. [from c. 1950.]

ergonomisk

Of or relating to the science of ergonomics.

erhålla

(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.

Erik

A en given name.

Erika

A en given name.

erinra

(transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

erinran

The act or practice of exhorting.

erinring

(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.

erkänd

Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.

erkänna

(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.

erkännande

The act of acknowledging

erlägga

(ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

Ernst

A en given name; popular in the 19th century.

erodera

To wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.

erogen

Sensitive to sexual arousal.

erotik

(uncountable) Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work.

erotisk

Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

erövrare

Someone who conquers.

erövring

An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.

ersätta

To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.

ersättare

(US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.

ersättning

A recompense or reward for service.

ersättningsrätt

(law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. [from late 16th c.]

ert

That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

ertappa

(transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

erudition

Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.

eruption

A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

Esaias

A en given name.

eskalera

(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

eskalering

A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.

eskapad

A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

esoterisk

Understood by only a few.

esoterism

The inward forms of faith and religion; transcendence, mystic experience, and internal realizations of the Divine.

espresso

A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee.

ess

(music) A tone one semitone lower than E, between D and E.

essa

Used to form female equivalents.

essäförfattare

One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.

essäist

One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.

essens

The inherent nature of a thing or idea.

essentiell

Very important; of high importance.

est

Used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs.

ester

(organic compound) A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond (i.e., carbonyl) joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.

estetik

That which appeals to the senses.

Estland

A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia.

estnisk

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Estonia, its people or their language.

estniska

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Estonia, its people or their language.

estrad

A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.

estuarie

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

estuarium

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

et al.

And others; to complete a list, especially of persons, as authors of a published work.

eta

The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.

etablera

(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

etablerad

Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.

etablerande

(Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.

etablering

The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.

etagär

(furniture) A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed; an etagere.

etage

(geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.

etagelägenhet

an apartment often on two floors

etagevåning

(US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.

etanol

(organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.

etapp

A stage of a journey, race etc.

etatism

(mostly, libertarianism, and, anarchism) The belief that the state is a legitimate societal organization. [1912]

etc.

And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known.

eterisk

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.

etikett

A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.

etikettera

(transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).

Etiopien

A country in East Africa.

etiopisk

Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.

etnologi

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.

etologi

(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.

etos

(art) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than emotional situations or individual character traits in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.

ett

An unspecified example of (something); the indefinite article. [from before 1150]

ett par

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

etta

(dice) A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.

ettåring

A child or animal that is one year of age.

etter

(archaic, or, UK, _, dialectal) Poisonous bodily fluid, especially venom of a venomous animal, such as a snake, dragon or other reptile; corrupt or morbid matter from the body, such as pus from a sore or wound; bitter substance, such as bile.

ettrig

Tenacious, energetic, spunky.

etymologi

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

etymon

(linguistics, philology) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

EU-parlamentariker

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

eufori

An excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.

euforisk

Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria

Eufrat

A river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.

Eugen

A en given name.

Eugenia

A en given name. Variant: Eugenie.

eugenik

(sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

eukalyptus

Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.

Euklides

Euclid of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, fl. 300 BC.

eurasier

Any person native to Eurasia, or descended from people native to Eurasia.

eurasisk

Of or pertaining to the continent of Eurasia, or to both Europe and Asia.

eureka

An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.

euro

(currencies) The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

Europa

(astronomy) A moon in Jupiter.

Europaparlamentariker

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

europé

Related to the European Union.

europeisk

Related to the European Union.

europeisk bison

The wisent, species Bos bonasus, Europe's heaviest land animal.

Eurydike

(Greek mythology) The name of various figures in Greek mythology.

eutanasi

The practice of intentionally killing a human being or animal in a humane way, especially in order to end suffering.

evakuering

The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.

evaluera

(transitive) To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.

evangelist

(Bible) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).

evangelium

The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.

evenemang

An occurrence; something that happens.

event

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

eventualitet

(countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses. [from 1610s]

eventuell

Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.

Evert

(countable) A en given name transferred back from the surname.

Evgenij

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij).

evig

Lasting forever; unending.

evighet

Eternity, the duration of the universe.

evolution

(geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it. [from 17th c.]

evolutionär

Of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.

evolutionistisk

Of or pertaining to evolutionism.

ewe

The Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Gbe family, spoken by these people.

ex officio

By virtue of the office that originated it, or of the title held.

ex-

former

exakt

(manner) Without approximation; precisely.

exakthet

Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.

examen

(education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.) [from 14th c.]

examensbevis

A document issued by an educational institution testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.

excellens

(used with His, Her or Your) A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.

excellera

(intransitive) To be much better than others.

excentriker

One who does not behave like others.

excentrisk

Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.

exceptionell

Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.

exceptionellt

To an unusual, remarkable or exceptional degree.

excess

An individual act of debauchery.

excitera

(transitive, physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.

exciterad

(physics) Being in a state of higher energy.

exeges

A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.

exekution

(legal) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

exekvera

(transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.

exekverbar

Capable of being executed.

exempel

Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).

exempellös

Lacking prior examples; unprecedented.

exempelvis

An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example.

exemplar

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

exemplarisk

Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.

exemplifiera

(transitive) To show or illustrate by example.

exemt

(usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to.

exfoliera

To remove a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation.

exhumera

(transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

exil

(uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.

exilera

(transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.