främmande

The current form ending in -ande (normally indicating a present participle) was used already in Old Swedish, but the more original form främmad lives on in spoken dialects in Götaland (including Närke) and is sometimes used in written poetry. Traces back to Old Saxon fremithi and Old High German framadi, fremidi, meaning "removed from". Ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz. This in turn is derived from fram, with roots in the indo-European pro-, also related to English preposition from. ("Främmad", SAOB). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk framand, Danish fremmed, English fremd, German fremd, Dutch vreemd.

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främmande (comparative mer främmande, superlative mest främmande)

1. strange (as a stranger), unfamiliar, unknown

   En främmande man kom fram till mig

   A man I didn't know came up to me

   Ska vi anropa det främmande skeppet?

   Should we hail the unknown ship?

2. foreign (of a different country, culture, religion, etc.)

   främmande kulturer

   foreign cultures (from notion of strange (as a stranger))

• fremmande (obsolete)

• främling

främmande n

1. guest(s), visitor(s) (usually to one's home, whether strangers or acquaintances, often collectively)

   Vi får främmande ikväll

   We're having guests tonight

• In spoken dialects (Götaland, including Närke, Östergötland), främmat is used, neuter form of främmad.
• Rarely appears with common gender.

• bekant
• gäst

• främmande in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• främmande in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• främmande in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)