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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Compound word of all (“all”) + tid (“time”), literally "all time", loan-translation of Middle Low German alletit.
Adverb
alltid
- always
- Skal du alltid klage?
- Do you always complain?
- Vi skal være sammen for alltid.
- We shall always be together.
- Slik har det alltid vært, og slik vil det alltid bli.
- Thus it has always been, and thus it will always come to be.
- Alderdommen tror alltid at den blir visere og visere, mens den i virkeligheten blir dummere.
- Old age always thinks it becomes wiser and wiser, while it in reality becomes stupider. (Knut Hamsun)
- used in expressions in the sense surely, certainly
- Det er da alltid noe.
- At least that's something. (literally. "well, that's always/surely something")
- Det kan vi alltid diskutere en annen gang, hva?
- We can always discuss that another time, right?
Synonyms
- (always) bestandig, evig, for evig, idelig, i gode og onde dager, i tykt og tynt, når som helst, sent og tidlig, stedse, støtt, til Dovre faller, til døden skiller ad, uavlatelig, uopphørlig, ustanselig, vedvarende
- (surely, always) alltids, da, gjerne, iallfall/i alle fall, i det minste
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Compound word of all (“all”) + tid (“time”), literally "all time", loan-translation of Middle Low German alletit.
Pronunciation
Adverb
alltid
- always
- Skal du alltid klage?
- Do you always complain?
- Vi skal vere saman for alltid.
- We shall always be together.
- Slik har det alltid vore, og slik vil det alltid bli.
- Thus it has always been, and thus it will always come to be.
- Det hjelper alltid bra på forståinga når fordommene fell. (Halldis Moren Vesaas)
- The fall of prejudice is always good for understanding. (literally: "it always helps good on the understanding when the prejudices fall")
- used in expressions in the sense surely, certainly
- Det er då alltid noko.
- At least that's something. (literally. "well, that's always/surely something")
- Det kan vi alltid diskutere ein annan gong, kva?
- We can always discuss that another time, right?
Synonyms
- (always) bestandig, jamt, evig, æveleg, for evig, ideleg, i gode og vonde dagar, i tjukt og tynt, når som helst, seint og tidleg, stedse, støtt, til Dovre fell, til dauden/døden skil åt, uavlateleg, uopphøyrleg, ustanseleg, vedvarande
- (surely, always) alltids, da/då, gjerne, iallfall/i alle fall, i det minste
Derived terms
References
Swedish
Etymology
From all + tid, literally "all time". Compare Danish altid, Dutch altijd, Icelandic ætíð, Norwegian Bokmål alltid, Norwegian Nynorsk alltid.
Pronunciation
Adverb
alltid (not comparable)
- always
- Antonym: aldrig
Sigge har alltid varit lång.- Sigge has always been tall.