besvär

Swedish

Etymology

From besvära (“to bother, to burden (someone with something)”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

besvär n

1. a trouble, a problem

   en liten tid vi leva här med mycken möda och stort besvär

   a little time we live here with much effort and great trouble

2. an appeal, a complaint

Usage notes

• Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.

Declension

Related terms

• besvärlig
• patentbesvär

See also

• reklamation

Verb

besvär

1. inflection of besvärja:
   1. present indicative
   2. imperative

Further reading

• besvär in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

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