svett

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From past participle of Old Norse sveitast

Adjective

svett (neuter singular svett, definite singular and plural svette, comparative svettere, indefinite superlative svettest, definite superlative svetteste)

  1. sweaty

Verb

svett

  1. imperative of svette

References

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Adjective

svett

  1. (colloquial) sweaty
Declension
Inflection of svett
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular svett — —
Neuter singular svett — —
Plural svetta — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 svette — —
All svetta — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-.

Noun

svett c

  1. sweat
Declension
Declension of svett 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative svett svetten — —
Genitive svetts svettens — —

References
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