"falsk" meaning in Swedish

See falsk in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /falsk/, [fal̪ːs̪k] Audio: Sv-falsk.ogg
Rhymes: -alsk Etymology: From Old Swedish falsker, borrowed from Middle Low German valsch, from Old Saxon *falski, from Proto-West Germanic *falskī (“false, counterfeit”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|sv|la}}, {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|falsker}} Old Swedish falsker, {{der|sv|gml|valsch}} Middle Low German valsch, {{der|sv|osx|*falski}} Old Saxon *falski, {{der|sv|gmw-pro|*falskī|t=false, counterfeit}} Proto-West Germanic *falskī (“false, counterfeit”) Head templates: {{head|sv|adjective|||comparative|falskare|superlative|falskast||f2accel-form=comparative|f3accel-form=superlative|head=|sort=}} falsk (comparative falskare, superlative falskast), {{sv-adj}} falsk (comparative falskare, superlative falskast) Forms: falskare [comparative], falskast [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], falsk [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, positive], falskare [comparative, error-unrecognized-form, indefinite], falskast [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, superlative], falskt [indefinite, neuter, positive, singular], falskare [comparative, indefinite, neuter, singular], falskast [indefinite, neuter, singular, superlative], falska [indefinite, plural, positive], falskare [comparative, indefinite, plural], falskast [indefinite, plural, superlative], falske [archaic, indefinite, masculine, plural, positive], falskare [archaic, comparative, indefinite, masculine, plural], falskast [archaic, indefinite, masculine, plural, superlative], falske [definite, masculine, positive, singular], falskare [comparative, definite, masculine, singular], falskaste [definite, masculine, singular, superlative], falska [definite, error-unrecognized-form, positive], falskare [comparative, definite, error-unrecognized-form], falskaste [definite, error-unrecognized-form, superlative]
  1. false (untrue, not factual, wrong)
    Sense id: en-falsk-sv-adj-QjnChYN0 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 32 3 13 13 38
  2. fake (not the actual thing)
    Sense id: en-falsk-sv-adj-vedeA28-
  3. false, phony, fake (not genuine, affected)
    Sense id: en-falsk-sv-adj-qo9SXa2D Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 32 3 13 13 38
  4. false, phony, fake (not genuine, affected)
    two-faced
    Sense id: en-falsk-sv-adj-t~r6CnqG Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 32 3 13 13 38
  5. (music) false (off-key, out of tune)
    Sense id: en-falsk-sv-adj-yS2lIMBm Categories (other): Music, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 41 36 1 0 1 1 13 Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 32 3 13 13 38 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: falsk som vatten, falskmyntare, falskspel, förfalska

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "falsk som vatten"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "falskspel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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    }
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      "form": "falske",
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          "english": "a false claim",
          "text": "ett falskt påstående",
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          "english": "fake pearls",
          "text": "falska pärlor",
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          "english": "You are the most beautiful person [nominalized] I've met, not painted-on and false like others.",
          "ref": "1983, Magnus Uggla, “Astrologen [The Astrologer]”, in Välkommen till folkhemmet [Welcome to Folkhemmet]:",
          "text": "Du är den vackraste jag mött, inte påmålad och falsk som andra.",
          "translation": "You are the most beautiful person [nominalized] I've met, not painted-on and false like others.",
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          "english": "sing off-key",
          "text": "sjunga falskt",
          "translation": "sing off-key",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/falsk/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[fal̪ːs̪k]"
    },
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      "audio": "Sv-falsk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/Sv-falsk.ogg/Sv-falsk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Sv-falsk.ogg"
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    }
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}
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    "Swedish terms derived from Latin",
    "Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German",
    "Swedish terms derived from Old Saxon",
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    },
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    {
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            [
              77,
              82
            ]
          ],
          "english": "You are the most beautiful person [nominalized] I've met, not painted-on and false like others.",
          "ref": "1983, Magnus Uggla, “Astrologen [The Astrologer]”, in Välkommen till folkhemmet [Welcome to Folkhemmet]:",
          "text": "Du är den vackraste jag mött, inte påmålad och falsk som andra.",
          "translation": "You are the most beautiful person [nominalized] I've met, not painted-on and false like others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "false, phony, fake (not genuine, affected)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "false",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "phony",
          "phony"
        ],
        [
          "fake",
          "fake"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "false, phony, fake (not genuine, affected)",
        "two-faced"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "false",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "phony",
          "phony"
        ],
        [
          "fake",
          "fake"
        ],
        [
          "two-faced",
          "two-faced"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish terms with usage examples",
        "sv:Music"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              12
            ]
          ],
          "english": "sing off-key",
          "text": "sjunga falskt",
          "translation": "sing off-key",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "false (off-key, out of tune)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "false",
          "false"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) false (off-key, out of tune)"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/falsk/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[fal̪ːs̪k]"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Sv-falsk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/Sv-falsk.ogg/Sv-falsk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Sv-falsk.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-alsk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "falsk"
}

Download raw JSONL data for falsk meaning in Swedish (6.2kB)

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'common singular'",
  "path": [
    "falsk"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "falsk",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'all'",
  "path": [
    "falsk"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "falsk",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). 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.

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