"förbättra" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Swedish]

Audio: Sv-förbättra.ogg
Etymology: From Old Swedish forbætra, from Middle Low German vorbeteren. Cognate with Danish forbedre, Norwegian Bokmål forbedre, Norwegian Nynorsk forbetre, forbetra, German verbessern and Dutch verbeteren. Equivalent to för- + bättra or för + bättre + a. Etymology templates: {{der|sv|gmq-osw|forbætra}} Old Swedish forbætra, {{der|sv|gml|vorbeteren}} Middle Low German vorbeteren, {{cog|da|forbedre}} Danish forbedre, {{cog|nb|forbedre}} Norwegian Bokmål forbedre, {{cog|nn|forbetre, forbetra}} Norwegian Nynorsk forbetre, forbetra, {{cog|de|verbessern}} German verbessern, {{cog|nl|verbeteren}} Dutch verbeteren, {{prefix|sv|för|bättra}} för- + bättra, {{affix|sv|för|bättre|a}} för + bättre + a Head templates: {{head|sv|verbs|present|förbättrar|preterite|förbättrade|supine|förbättrat|imperative|förbättra|head=}} förbättra (present förbättrar, preterite förbättrade, supine förbättrat, imperative förbättra) Inflection templates: {{sv-conj-wk}} Forms: förbättrar [present], förbättrade [preterite], förbättrat [supine], förbättra [imperative], weak [table-tags], förbättra [active, infinitive], förbättras [infinitive, passive], förbättrat [active, supine], förbättrats [passive, supine], förbättra [active, imperative], - [imperative, passive], förbättren [active, archaic, imperative, plural], - [archaic, imperative, passive, plural], förbättrar [active, indicative, present], förbättrade [active, indicative, past], förbättras [indicative, passive, present], förbättrades [indicative, passive, past], förbättra [active, archaic, indicative, plural, present], förbättrade [active, archaic, indicative, past, plural], förbättras [archaic, indicative, passive, plural, present], förbättrades [archaic, indicative, passive, past, plural], förbättre [active, dated, present, subjunctive], förbättrade [active, dated, past, subjunctive], förbättres [dated, passive, present, subjunctive], förbättrades [dated, passive, past, subjunctive], förbättrande [participle, present], förbättrad [participle, past]
  1. (transitive) improve, enhance, make better Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-förbättra-sv-verb-ujKI8ocb Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Swedish terms prefixed with för- Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Swedish terms prefixed with för-: 48 52
  2. (reflexive) improve oneself, to make oneself better; get better Tags: reflexive
    Sense id: en-förbättra-sv-verb-vgsfB3QP Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Swedish terms prefixed with för- Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Swedish terms prefixed with för-: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bättra, förbättring, bli bättre [intransitive]

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Sv-f%C3%B6rb%C3%A4ttra.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.