Noun: backe
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
Genitive
Sample Sentences
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Det är jobbigt att cykla uppför den branta backen (It's strenuous to ride (a bike) up the steep hill)
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backen på sidan av kullen (the slope on the side of the hill)
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en dag i backen (a day on the slopes)
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Vi drar till fjällen. Fest hela kvällen. Ute och glider med snowboard och skidor. Vi drar till fjällen. Fest hela kvällen. Se upp i backen för finska attacken. (We head off to the mountains [or "We're headin' for the mountains" or something colloquial like that]. Party [noun] all night [the whole evening]. Out sliding with snowboard and skis. We head off to the mountains. Party all night. Watch out on the slopes [the slope] for the Finnish attack.) [1998, Jan Nordlund, Johan Lagerlöf, Jens Bergmark, Daniel Bäckström, Arijan Selami, Marko Lehtosalo, Stefan Enberg, “Vi drar till fjällen [We head off to the mountains]”performed by Markoolio [portmanteau of his first name Marko and the stage name of American rapper Coolio], Elise Myrberg, and Jemma Myrberg:]
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Hon halkade och föll i backen (She slipped and fell to the ground [could also be interpreted as "She slipped and fell on the hill/slope," though unlikely here])
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Vasen trillade i backen när de skulle bära in den (The vase fell to the ground as they were carrying it in)
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Tjuren frustade och stampade i backen (The bull snorted and stomped the ground)
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över berg och backar (over mountains and hills [still recognized as an expression])
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galgbacke (gallows hill [site for execution by hanging, usually on a hill])
Nouns inflected like backe
silver,
utpressning,
rajtantajtan,
rajtan tajtan,
fuffens,
ögonhöjd,
svettning,
orientering,
öronbedövande tystnad,
studsning,
kyckling,
gangrän,
medelnedertyska,
luftmotstånd,
besinning,
tapering,
generalisering,
isglass,
pilates,
nonsens, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse bakki (“bank”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. See: Old Norse Nouns '
bakki'.
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