spegel – Swedish noun declension

Swedish noun forms of spegel

Noun: spegel
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender

Nominative

Sg. Indef.spegel
Sg. Def.spegeln
Pl. Indef.speglar
Pl. Def.speglarna

Genitive

Sg. Indef.spegels
Sg. Def.spegelns
Pl. Indef.speglars
Pl. Def.speglarnas

Sample Sentences

  • Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som fagrast i landet är (Mirror, mirror on the wall [there], tell me who the fairest in the country is (standard translation))
  • Leende spegel med brister och fel, ser att barnet har blivit en man. Och gudarna gav mig en underlig själ, som har svårt att ta för sig ibland. (Smiling mirror with faults and errors, sees that the child has become a man. And the gods gave me a strange soul, that sometimes has a hard time helping itself to things [awkward translation that matches the meaning – "att ta för sig" (to take for oneself) means "to help oneself (to something)"].) [1990, Niklas Strömstedt, “Om [If]”, in Om! [If!]:]
  • Filmer är en spegel av samhället (Movies are a mirror of society)

Etymology

From Old Swedish speghil, from Old Norse spegill, from Middle Low German spēgel, from Medieval Latin speglum, from Latin speculum. See: Old Norse Nouns 'spegill', Latin Nouns 'speculum'.

Verbs referencing "spegel"

Finnish Nouns peili, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns spegel.

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