ord – Swedish noun declension

Swedish noun forms of ord

Noun: ord
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter

Nominative

Sg. Indef.ord
Sg. Def.ordet
Pl. Indef.ord
Pl. Def.orden

Genitive

Sg. Indef.ords
Sg. Def.ordets
Pl. Indef.ords
Pl. Def.ordens

Sample Sentences

  • "Myrslok" är ett ord ("Anteater" is a word)
  • Hon sa inte ett ord (She didn't say a word)
  • En bok innehåller många ord (A book contains many words)
  • få sista ordet (have the last word)
  • Det var evighetssekunder. Tre korta andetag. Hela livet vände. Vem valde? Inte jag. Jag hörde ord från mina läppar som aldrig vilat i min mun. Tankar aldrig tänkta, som nya väggar i ett rum. (It was seconds of eternity. Three short breaths. My whole life ["the whole life" – Swedish often prefers to express possession by putting a noun in the definite instead of with a separate possessive pronoun] turned around. Who chose? Not me. I heard words from my lips that had [implied from vilat (“rested”) being supine] never rested in my mouth. Thoughts never thought, like new walls in a room.) [1991, Eva Dahlgren, “Vem tänder stjärnorna? [Who lights the stars?]”, in En blekt blondins hjärta [The Heart of a Bleached Blonde]:]
  • Jag tänker på dig ofta. Om du varit min egen bror, då hade också jag förvandlats till ett monster utan ord. (I think about you often. If you had been my own brother, then I too would have turned into a monster without words.) [1994, Uno Svenningsson, “Under ytan [Beneath the Surface]”, in Uno:]
  • Du har mitt ord (You have my word)
  • ge någon ordet (give someone the floor [the word])
  • ha ordet (have the floor [the word])

Etymology

From Old Swedish orþ, from Old Norse orð, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo- (“word”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'orð'.

Verbs referencing "ord"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns ord, Faroese Nouns orð, Icelandic Nouns orð.

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