Noun: lycka
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | lycka |
| Sg. Def. | lyckan |
| Pl. Indef. | lyckor |
| Pl. Def. | lyckorna |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | lyckas |
| Sg. Def. | lyckans |
| Pl. Indef. | lyckors |
| Pl. Def. | lyckornas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lycka
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 Middle Low German lucke, gelucke. According to the OED, it may be related to the source of English lock (compare Proto-Germanic *lūkaną (“to close, to shut”)).
2. Compare Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lykke, and Norwegian Nynorsk lukke f. Compare also English luck, German Glück, Yiddish גליק (glik), West Frisian gelok, Dutch and Afrikaans geluk, Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo koloku. See: English Nouns '
lock', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
lykke', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
lukke', English Nouns '
luck', German Nouns '
Glück'.
Verbs referencing "lycka"
English Nouns
luck, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
lukke, Finnish Nouns
lykky, Icelandic Nouns
lukka.
Translations