Noun: data
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | data |
| Sg. Def. | datan |
| Pl. Indef. | dator |
| Pl. Def. | datorna |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | datas |
| Sg. Def. | datans |
| Pl. Indef. | dators |
| Pl. Def. | datornas |
Sample Sentences
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Det är fel på datan. (Something's wrong with the computer.)
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De första datorna var ju också mycket enkla. (The first computers were indeed very simple.) [1966, Olof Johannesson (pen name of Hannes Alfvén), Sagan om den stora datamaskinen:]
Nouns inflected like data
hojtarolja,
pocketrea,
syssla,
inbjudningslista,
kroppkaka,
snäppa,
snärja,
snärta,
snäcka,
snurra,
snippa,
salvia,
urtavla,
grendosa,
smitta,
smocka,
smedja,
togolesiska,
slunga,
slinka, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Latin data, from the plural of datum (“that which is given, information, facts at hand, a date in the calendar”).
2. The sense ”computer” is a clipping of datamaskin. See: Latin Nouns '
data'.
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