Noun: ok
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | ok |
| Sg. Def. | oket |
| Pl. Indef. | ok |
| Pl. Def. | oken |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | oks |
| Sg. Def. | okets |
| Pl. Indef. | oks |
| Pl. Def. | okens |
Sample Sentences
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Mitt ok är skonsamt och min börda är lätt. (My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.) [2000, 1973 års bibelkommission, “Matteusevangeliet [Matthew] 11:30”, in Bibel 2000, © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2025:]
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Det är som om ett ok har lyfts från mina axlar. (It's as if a yoke has been lifted from my shoulders.) [2004 June 13, Ingalill Mosander, “Orden har befriat mig [The words have liberated me]”, in Aftonbladet, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2025:]
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Därefter lades danskarna under oket av svenskarna för andra gången. (Then the Danes were put under the yoke by the Swedes for the second time.) [2018, Johannes Magnus, translated by Kurt Johannesson, edited by Hans Helander, Goternas och svearnas historia, Michaelisgillet & Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2025:]
Nouns inflected like ok
fraktfartyg,
narkotikabeslag,
kombinationsfält,
urinrör,
civilutskott,
urklipp,
rumpknull,
symtom,
synfel,
blogginlägg,
system,
syskon,
bubbelbad,
sexköp,
sekret,
seldon,
urspråk,
samråd,
samtal,
samlag, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Doublet of zygot. See: Old Norse Nouns '
ok'.
Verbs referencing "ok"
Dutch Nouns
juk.
Translations