Swedish–English dictionary

allmän

Mutual; shared by more than one.

allmänhet

(countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.

allmänning

A tract of land in common ownership; common land.

allmänt

(figurative) Commonly; generally; to a great degree.

allmänt känd

Widely known; famous; stereotypical.

allmänt utbredd

Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

allmosa

Something given to the poor as charity, such as money, clothing or food.

allograf

A variant form of a letter (or other grapheme).

allomfattande

Including everything; universal.

allra

Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.

alls

In any way; at all; whatever.

allsidig

Complete, whole, not lacking.

allsmäktig

(Christianity) God.

allsmäktighet

Unlimited power; commonly attributed to a deity or deities.

allt

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

allt för

(degree) To an excessive degree, more than enough indicates that the degree of a quality is more than what is needed or wanted.

allt-i-allo

(dated) A general servant.

alltför

(sometimes, proscribed) To an excessive degree.

alltiallo

(dated) A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities.

alltid

(formal, or, archaic) Always, frequently, forever.

alltså

(conjunctive) In natural sequence; consequently; so.

alludera

(intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

allusion

An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.

alluvialavlagring

soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

alluvium

soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain

allvarlig

In a grievous manner, severely.

allvarligt

(manner) In a serious or literal manner.

allvarsam

Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition

allvetande

Having total knowledge.

alm

(countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.

Alma

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

almanac

(astronomy, navigation) A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.

almanacka

(astronomy, navigation) A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.

aln

The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.

alp

A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.

Alperna

A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.

alpin

Relating to the Alps, a mountain range in Western and Central Europe.

Alrik

(rare) A en given name.

Alsace

A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.

älska

(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

älska med

(transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

älskad

Much loved, dearly loved.

älskade

Someone who is loved; something that is loved.

älskande

One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.

älskare

One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.

älskarinna

One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.

älskling

(informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.

älskvärd

Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.

alster

(countable, figurative) A result of a creative effort.

älta

(intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.

ältande

(psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.

altare

A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

alternativ

(mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.

alternativ-

Outside the mainstream.

alternativt

in an alternative way

alternera

(transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.

alternerande

Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).

altfiol

A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.

altimeter

An apparatus for measuring altitude.

ältning

(psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.

altruist

A person showing altruism.

altruistisk

Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish

aluminium

A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.

aluminiumfolie

(Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A very thin, pliable, easily torn sheet of aluminium used for cooking, packaging, cosmetics, and insulation.

alv

(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.

älva

(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.

Alvin

A en given name.

amalgam

(metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.

Amalia

A en given name.

Amanda

A en given name.

amason

(Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.

amatör

Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.

amatörfotograf

(informal) A person who makes a hobby of photography.

amatörmässig

(pejorative) Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.

Amazonfloden

(sometimes, attributive) A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.

amazonpapegoja

A tall, strong, athletic woman.

ämbar

The amount held in this container.

ambassad

An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.

ämbetsman

A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.

ambitiös

(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.

ambivalens

The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.

ambivalent

Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.

ambra

A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, produced in the intestines of the sperm whale. It is used in perfumes.

ambrosia

Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.

ambulans

An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. [1854]

ambulanspersonal

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.

Amerika

A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole.

amerikan

A citizen or national of the United States of America.

amerikanare

A citizen or national of the United States of America.

amerikansk ostkaka

(countable, and, uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).

amerikansk pannkaka

In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.

ametist

A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.

amfetamin

(informal) Any mixture of the two amphetamine enantiomers, dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine.

amfibisk

Capable of functioning on land or in water.

amfiteater

An open, outdoor theatre (which may be a theatre in the round, or have a stage with seating on only one side), especially one from the classical period of ancient Greece or Rome, or a modern venue of similar design.

amfora

(chiefly, _, historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil.

amiralitet

(military) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.

amiralsflagga

(nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.

amishfolket

A strict Anabaptist sect living mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.

amma

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

ammoniak

(inorganic compound) A gaseous, toxic compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste.

ammunition

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

ämna

(ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

ämnad

Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.

ämne

The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.

amnesi

(pathology) Loss of memory; forgetfulness.

ämnesomsättning

(physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

amnesti

An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

amning

(countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.

amöba

(biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.

amöbadysenteri

(medicine) An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.

amok

In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.

Amor

(Roman god) The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow). The Roman counterpart of Eros.

amorf

Lacking a definite form or clear shape.

amortering

(banking, finance) Any of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equal in amount (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), and payment of which takes place at regular intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.

Amos

(book of the bible) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

amplitud

The measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.

ampull

A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.

amputation

surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.

amputera

To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Amsterdam

A city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; the capital city of the Netherlands.

amulett

A religious article, protective charm, or ornament, usually bearing cultural or magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.

amygdala

(neuroanatomy) Each one of the two regions of the brain, located as a pair in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in processing emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.

åmynning

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

än

Emphasizing a comparative.

än en gång

(idiomatic) Again, once more, one more time.

än nu

Emphasizing a comparative.

än så länge

(idiomatic) Until now; previously; yet.

ana

To instinctively be aware.

anabol

Of or relating to anabolism.

anabola

An anabolic steroid.

anaerob

Without oxygen; especially of an environment or organism.

anagram

(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

anakonda

(countable) Any large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

anakoret

One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.

anal

(not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

anala fasen

(psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

anala stadiet

(psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

analfabet

A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or wholly illiterate person. [from mid 17th c.]

analfabetisk

Unable to read and write.

analfabetism

(uncountable) The inability to read and write.

analgetika

(pharmacology) Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain, especially without inducing a loss of other sensation. (Contrast anesthetic.)

analog

(of a device or system) In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).

analogi

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.

analöppning

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

analys

Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.

analysera

(transitive) To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

analytisk

Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.

anamma

To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

anammande

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.