"fröken" meaning in Swedish

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfrøːkɛn/
Etymology: Inherited from Old Swedish fröken, from Middle Low German vröuken, vrouwicken, diminutive of vrûwe, vrouwe (“woman, lady”), from Old Saxon frūa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā. Etymology templates: {{dercat|sv|gem-pro}}, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|fröken|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Swedish fröken, {{inh+|sv|gmq-osw|fröken}} Inherited from Old Swedish fröken, {{der|sv|gml|vröuken, vrouwicken}} Middle Low German vröuken, vrouwicken, {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{m|gml|vrûwe, vrouwe||woman, lady}} vrûwe, vrouwe (“woman, lady”), {{der|sv|osx|frūa}} Old Saxon frūa, {{der|sv|gmw-pro|*frauwjā}} Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} fröken c, {{sv-noun|c}} fröken c Inflection templates: {{sv-decl-noun|fröken|fröken|fröknar|fröknarna|frökens|frökens|fröknars|fröknarnas|base=fröken|definitions=|gender=Common}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], fröken [indefinite, nominative, singular], fröken [definite, nominative, singular], fröknar [indefinite, nominative, plural], fröknarna [definite, nominative, plural], frökens [genitive, indefinite, singular], frökens [definite, genitive, singular], fröknars [genitive, indefinite, plural], fröknarnas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. (dated) Miss ((title for an) unmarried woman) Tags: common-gender, dated
    Sense id: en-fröken-sv-noun-9RaIDwP~ Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 13 37 42 7 1
  2. (somewhat dated) a female teacher or pedagogue, Miss (in kindergarten or elementary school – especially when referred to or addressed by the children) Tags: common-gender, dated Synonyms: skolfröken (english: elementary school), dagisfröken (english: kindergarten), lärarinna, lärare, pedagog
    Sense id: en-fröken-sv-noun-sv:teacher Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 13 37 42 7 1
  3. (somewhat dated) Miss (as a term of address for a woman in certain functions, for example a waitress) Tags: common-gender, dated
    Sense id: en-fröken-sv-noun-JDWdELQ2 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 13 37 42 7 1
  4. (by extension) a young girl, a miss Tags: broadly, common-gender
    Sense id: en-fröken-sv-noun-mC6we7Fz
  5. (obsolete) an unmarried princess Tags: common-gender, obsolete
    Sense id: en-fröken-sv-noun-uua5r6hx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dagisfröken, fröken Höger, skolfröken Related terms: -ska, fru, herr, magister

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Vill fröken ha kaffe?",
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          "text": "Fröken Andersson kom och hälsade på",
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        {
          "english": "Teacher! I need help.",
          "text": "Fröken! Jag behöver hjälp.",
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          "english": "Our teacher is super nice!",
          "text": "Våran fröken är jättesnäll!",
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          "word": "dagisfröken"
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        "(obsolete) an unmarried princess"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfrøːkɛn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fröken"
}
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    "Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish",
    "Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Swedish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
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          "english": "Miss Andersson came to visit",
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          "english": "Our teacher is super nice!",
          "text": "Våran fröken är jättesnäll!",
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        "a female teacher or pedagogue, Miss (in kindergarten or elementary school – especially when referred to or addressed by the children)"
      ],
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          "pedagogue",
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        ],
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          "Miss",
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        "(somewhat dated) a female teacher or pedagogue, Miss (in kindergarten or elementary school – especially when referred to or addressed by the children)"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "elementary school",
          "word": "skolfröken"
        },
        {
          "english": "kindergarten",
          "word": "dagisfröken"
        },
        {
          "word": "lärarinna"
        },
        {
          "word": "lärare"
        },
        {
          "word": "pedagog"
        }
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        {
          "english": "Excuse me Miss, could we have the bill, please?",
          "text": "Ursäkta fröken, skulle vi kunna få notan, tack?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Miss (as a term of address for a woman in certain functions, for example a waitress)"
      ],
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        [
          "Miss",
          "Miss"
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      ],
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        "(somewhat dated) Miss (as a term of address for a woman in certain functions, for example a waitress)"
      ],
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        "dated"
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    },
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "She is a stubborn little miss",
          "text": "Hon är en envis liten fröken",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "a young girl, a miss"
      ],
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          "young",
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        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "miss",
          "miss"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) a young girl, a miss"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "common-gender"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swedish terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an unmarried princess"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unmarried",
          "unmarried"
        ],
        [
          "princess",
          "princess"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) an unmarried princess"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "common-gender",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfrøːkɛn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fröken"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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.