"elände" meaning in Swedish

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Noun

Etymology: From Old Swedish ælænde, answering to Danish elende; from Middle Low German elende, ellende, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *land (“land”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|sv|gem-pro}}, {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|ælænde}} Old Swedish ælænde, {{cog|da|elende}} Danish elende, {{der|sv|gml|elende}} Middle Low German elende, {{der|sv|gmw-pro|*alljas||other}} Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=n|g2=|head=|sort=}} elände n, {{sv-noun|n}} elände n Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-n-n}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], elände [indefinite, nominative, singular], eländes [genitive, indefinite, singular], eländet [definite, nominative, singular], eländets [definite, genitive, singular], eländen [indefinite, nominative, plural], eländens [genitive, indefinite, plural], eländena [definite, nominative, plural], eländenas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. misery Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-elände-sv-noun-ZEB~TTPg
  2. something that causes misery or is miserable Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-elände-sv-noun-5x6DHaMb Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 79 Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: eländig Related terms: jämmer

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "eländig"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gem-pro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gmq-osw",
        "3": "ælænde"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Swedish ælænde",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "elende"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish elende",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gml",
        "3": "elende"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German elende",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*alljas",
        "4": "",
        "5": "other"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Swedish ælænde, answering to Danish elende; from Middle Low German elende, ellende, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *land (“land”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sv-infl-noun-n-n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "elände",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländet",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländets",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländens",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländena",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländenas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "g": "n",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "elände n",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "elände n",
      "name": "sv-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "sv-infl-noun-n-n"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "jämmer"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And the door opens on the rocket. The banana high command comes out. \"Now we are running [taking care of, managing] this planet, so that the misery can come to an end.\"",
          "ref": "1982, “Banankontakt av tredje graden [Banana encounter of the third kind [\"närkontakt av tredje graden\" (close contact of the third degree) is idiomatic for \"close encounter of the third kind\"]]”, Lasse Åberg (lyrics), Janne Schaffer (music)performed by Electric Banana Band:",
          "text": "Och dörren öppnas på raketen. Banankommandot kommer ut. \"Nu sköter vi den här planeten, så eländet kan få ett slut.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "misery"
      ],
      "id": "en-elände-sv-noun-ZEB~TTPg",
      "links": [
        [
          "misery",
          "misery"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It's moth-eaten. Throw the wretched thing away.",
          "text": "Den är maläten. Kasta eländet.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Now the birds are eating in the strawberry patch again. Get out of here, you wretches!",
          "text": "Nu är fåglarna och äter i jordgubbslandet igen. Stick härifrån, era eländen!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "something that causes misery or is miserable"
      ],
      "id": "en-elände-sv-noun-5x6DHaMb",
      "links": [
        [
          "misery",
          "misery"
        ],
        [
          "miserable",
          "miserable"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elände"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Swedish lemmas",
    "Swedish neuter nouns",
    "Swedish nouns",
    "Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German",
    "Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish",
    "Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Swedish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "eländig"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gem-pro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gmq-osw",
        "3": "ælænde"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "elende"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish elende",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gml",
        "3": "elende"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German elende",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*alljas",
        "4": "",
        "5": "other"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Swedish ælænde, answering to Danish elende; from Middle Low German elende, ellende, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *land (“land”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sv-infl-noun-n-n",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "elände",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländet",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländets",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländens",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländena",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eländenas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "g": "n",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "elände n",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "elände n",
      "name": "sv-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "sv-infl-noun-n-n"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "jämmer"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And the door opens on the rocket. The banana high command comes out. \"Now we are running [taking care of, managing] this planet, so that the misery can come to an end.\"",
          "ref": "1982, “Banankontakt av tredje graden [Banana encounter of the third kind [\"närkontakt av tredje graden\" (close contact of the third degree) is idiomatic for \"close encounter of the third kind\"]]”, Lasse Åberg (lyrics), Janne Schaffer (music)performed by Electric Banana Band:",
          "text": "Och dörren öppnas på raketen. Banankommandot kommer ut. \"Nu sköter vi den här planeten, så eländet kan få ett slut.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "misery"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "misery",
          "misery"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It's moth-eaten. Throw the wretched thing away.",
          "text": "Den är maläten. Kasta eländet.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Now the birds are eating in the strawberry patch again. Get out of here, you wretches!",
          "text": "Nu är fåglarna och äter i jordgubbslandet igen. Stick härifrån, era eländen!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "something that causes misery or is miserable"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "misery",
          "misery"
        ],
        [
          "miserable",
          "miserable"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elände"
}

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