Noun: sprit
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | sprit |
| Sg. Def. | spriten |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | sprits |
| Sg. Def. | spritens |
Sample Sentences
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Gyllensten fyller femtio år. Har alltid på spriten varit svår. Så när vi nu på hans bjudning går, så vet vi ju alla vad vi får. (Gyllensten is turning fifty years old [today]. Has always been keen on the booze. So now when we go to his party [finer private party with invited guests], we all know what we're getting.) [1985, Eddie Meduza, “Alla tiders fyllekalas [All times' [as in greatest of all time or the like – idiomatic] drunken party]”:]
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Dricka sprit, och hålla käften. Dricka sprit, och hålla käften. Dricka billig sprit, och hålla käften. Jag vill dit. (Drinking booze, and shutting up. Drinking booze, and shutting up. Drinking cheap booze, and shutting up. I want to get [to] there [thither].) [1991, De Lyckliga Kompisarna, “Dricka sprit och hålla käften [Drinking booze and shutting up [more literally, "(to) drink booze and shut up" – not in the imperative]]”, in Le som en fotomodell [Smile like a model]:]
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Spriten räddade [often clipped to "rädda" in speech] mig från sporten (tra-la ho ho). Spriten räddar folk från sporten, idag. (Booze saved me from sports ["the sport" – definite is often idiomatic when referring to concepts] (tra-la ho ho). Booze saves people from sports, today.) [1995, Räserbajs, “Spriten räddade mig från sporten [Booze [the booze] saved me from sports]”, in Noppriga tights och moonboots [Pilly tights and moon boots]:]
Nouns inflected like sprit
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
From French ésprit (compare English sprite), from Old French esprit, from Latin spiritus (“air, breath”). See: English Nouns '
sprite', Latin Nouns '
spiritus'.
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