svett

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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

Etymology 2

Verb

svett

  1. imperative of svette

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Etymology 1

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 — —
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Etymology 2

Adjective

svett (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) sweaty
Declension
Inflection of svett
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular svett — —
Neuter singular svett — —
Plural svetta — —
Masculine plural3 svette — —
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.
3) Dated or archaic
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Verb

svett

  1. supine of sveda

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