arbete

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Swedish

 arbete on Swedish Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old Swedish arbeide, arbeyd, arbede, arbeyte, arbeyt, arbete, ærbete, arbet, from Middle Low German arbet, arbeit, arvêd, arveid, from Old Saxon arvēd, arƀed, arvid, arvēdi, arƀēdi, from Proto-Germanic *arbaidiz. Compare Norwegian arbeid, Danish arbejde, Faroese arbeiði, German Arbeit, Dutch arbeid. Compare the doublet arvode, inherited from Old Swedish arvoþe, ærviþi, from Old Norse erfiði.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈarˌbeːtɛ/,
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Noun

arbete n

  1. work, job (economic role for which a person is paid)
    Synonyms: jobb, (colloquial) kneg
  2. work; effort expended on a particular task
  3. (physics) work; measure of energy expended in moving an object

Declension

Declension of arbete 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative arbete arbetet arbeten arbetena
Genitive arbetes arbetets arbetens arbetenas

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