Noun: vett
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | vett |
| Sg. Def. | vettet |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | vetts |
| Sg. Def. | vettets |
Sample Sentences
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Han har vett nog att inte göra det. (He has enough sense not to do it.)
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Det är svårt att försöka banka in vett i skallen på någon. (It's hard to try to knock some sense into someone('s head).)
Nouns inflected like vett
sexliv,
sattyg,
schtek,
viltkött,
sorbat,
ultraljud,
fläskkött,
skakvåld,
alkoholmissbruk,
grannskap,
beskydd,
rasförräderi,
sommarsolstånd,
futurum,
fastland,
ögonmått,
ögongrus,
arbetsliv,
tuggmotstånd,
griskött, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Swedish vit, from Old Norse vit, from Proto-Germanic *witą. Cognate with Danish vid, Icelandic vit. Compare English wit, German Witz, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹 (unwiti, “ignorance”) derived from *witją. See: Old Norse Nouns '
vit', Danish Nouns '
vid', Icelandic Nouns '
vit', English Nouns '
wit', German Nouns '
Witz', Gothic Nouns '
𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌹'.
Verbs referencing "vett"
Icelandic Nouns
vit, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
vit, Old English Nouns
witt.
Translations