"dotter" meaning in Swedish

See dotter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /²dɔtɛr/, [ˈdɔtːˌtər] Audio: Sv-dotter.ogg
Etymology: Inherited from Old Swedish dōttir, from Old Norse dóttir, from Proto-Norse ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ (dohtriʀ, “daughters”), from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (“daughter”). Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|dōttir|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Swedish dōttir, {{inh+|sv|gmq-osw|dōttir}} Inherited from Old Swedish dōttir, {{inh|sv|non|dóttir}} Old Norse dóttir, {{inh|sv|gmq-pro|ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ||daughters}} Proto-Norse ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ (dohtriʀ, “daughters”), {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*duhtēr}} Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, {{inh|sv|ine-pro|*dʰugh₂tḗr||daughter}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (“daughter”) Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||||g=c|g2=|g3=|g4=|head=|sort=}} dotter c, {{sv-noun|c}} dotter c Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-c-r|3=döttra}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], dotter [indefinite, nominative, singular], dotters [genitive, indefinite, singular], dottern [definite, nominative, singular], dotterns [definite, genitive, singular], döttrar [indefinite, nominative, plural], döttrars [genitive, indefinite, plural], döttrarna [definite, nominative, plural], döttrarnas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. a daughter Tags: common-gender Hypernyms: barn Coordinate_terms: son

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (a0f6d7f and 9d9a410). 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.