Noun: avund
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | avund |
| Sg. Def. | avunden |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | avunds |
| Sg. Def. | avundens |
Sample Sentences
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Den framlysande avunden i Ygbergs anförande framblåste ett strömoln över den soliga himmelen, men det var blott för ett ögonblick, ty alla visste att avunden hade ett långt, förlorat livs bitterhet till ursäkt. (The apparent envy in Ygberg's speech threw a sudden cloud over the sunlit skies, but it was but for the moment, for everyone knew that the envy had a long, lost life's bitterness as its excuse.)
Nouns inflected like avund
konservatism,
underdånighet,
nöjesjournalistik,
lydnadsplikt,
nedbrytning,
finkänslighet,
glupskhet,
desinficering,
upprabbling,
snörök,
granntyckthet,
seghet,
ostadighet,
uppnåelighet,
sadism,
samsyn,
samtid,
sammet,
sambal,
pubertet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Swedish afund, from Old Norse ǫfund, from Proto-Germanic *abundiz. See: Old Norse Nouns '
ǫfund'.
Verbs referencing "avund"
Danish Nouns
avind.
Translations