Noun: flit
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | flit |
| Sg. Def. | fliten |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | flits |
| Sg. Def. | flitens |
Sample Sentences
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där flitens lampa brinner (where [someone] works long hours)
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Byråkrater, de har det bra. De stormtrivs på jobbet var dag. De skickar små fax hit och dit med ambition och mycket flit. (Bureaucrats, they have it good. They feel great at work every day. They send little faxes [to] here and [to] there [hither and thither] with ambition and much diligence.) [1998, “Jag ska bli en byråkrat [I will [shall] be a bureaucrat]”, in Lasse Åberg (lyrics), Janne Schaffer (music), Electric Banana Tajm [Electric Banana Time [with jocular Swedification of "time"]], performed by Electric Banana Band:]
Nouns inflected like flit
konservatism,
underdånighet,
nöjesjournalistik,
lydnadsplikt,
nedbrytning,
finkänslighet,
glupskhet,
desinficering,
upprabbling,
snörök,
granntyckthet,
seghet,
ostadighet,
uppnåelighet,
sadism,
samsyn,
samtid,
sammet,
sambal,
pubertet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Swedish flit, from Middle Low German vlīt, vlît, from Old Saxon *flīt, from Proto-West Germanic *flīt, from Proto-Germanic *flītaz, for which compare *flītan (“to strive”).
2. See also German Low German Fliet, Saterland Frisian Fliet, Dutch vlijt, Danish flid, Norwegian Bokmål flid, Norwegian Nynorsk flit, and German Fleiß, Fleiss. See: Dutch Nouns '
vlijt', Danish Nouns '
flid', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
flit', German Nouns '
Fleiß'.
Verbs referencing "flit"
English Nouns
flite.
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