Noun: frukt
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | frukt |
| Sg. Def. | frukten |
| Pl. Indef. | frukter |
| Pl. Def. | frukterna |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | frukts |
| Sg. Def. | fruktens |
| Pl. Indef. | frukters |
| Pl. Def. | frukternas |
Sample Sentences
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ett äpple är en frukt (an apple is a fruit)
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fruktsallad (fruit salad)
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en fruktskål (a fruit bowl)
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frukt och grönt (fruit and vegetables ["fruit and green [things – nominalized]" – idiomatic])
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njuta frukterna av sitt arbete (enjoy the fruits of one's labor)
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Satsningen bar frukt (The venture bore fruit)
Nouns inflected like frukt
kosovoalban,
olikformighet,
urinoar,
dödspatrull,
universitetsadjunkt,
villaförort,
urkraft,
knallpulverpistol,
bacillusk,
symbol,
synkop,
sydpol,
mikroorganism,
abiturient,
flykthastighet,
syrian,
rådjursjakt,
partikamrat,
skyttesoldat,
debutroman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish frukt, from Old Norse fruktr, borrowed from Middle Low German vrucht, from Old Saxon fruht, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fruht, a borrowing from Latin frūctus. Cognate with German Frucht. See: Old Norse Nouns '
fruktr', Latin Nouns '
frūctus', German Nouns '
Frucht'.
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