Noun: visdom
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
Genitive
Sample Sentences
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De lyssnade uppmärksamt till de äldres visdom. (They listened attentively to the wisdom of the elders.)
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Alla blommor vissnar och ungdom viker för åldern. På samma sätt har varje stadium sin utmätta tid. Det gäller också visdomar och dygder. Ingenting kan vara i evighet. (All flowers wither, and youth yields to age. In the same way, every stage has its allotted time. The same goes for wisdom and virtue. Nothing can last forever.) [1977, Olof Lagercrantz, edited by Lars-Olof Franzén, Enhörningen [The Unicorn], Wahlström & Widstrand, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2025:]
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[Jag] skall ge er ord och visdom som era fiender inte kan stå emot eller vederlägga. (I will give you words and wisdom that your enemies will not be able to withstand or refute.) [2000, 1973 års bibelkommission [The Swedish Bible Commission of 1973], “Lukasevangeliet [Luke] 21:15”, in Bibel 2000, © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2025:]
Nouns inflected like visdom
silver,
utpressning,
rajtantajtan,
rajtan tajtan,
fuffens,
ögonhöjd,
svettning,
orientering,
öronbedövande tystnad,
studsning,
kyckling,
gangrän,
medelnedertyska,
luftmotstånd,
besinning,
tapering,
generalisering,
isglass,
pilates,
nonsens, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Swedish visdomber, from Old Norse vísdómr, from Proto-Germanic *wīsadōmaz, equivalent to vis + -dom. See: Old Norse Nouns '
vísdómr'.
Verbs referencing "visdom"
Icelandic Nouns
vísdómur.
Translations