"men" meaning in Swedish

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Conjunction

IPA: /mɛn/ Audio: Sv-men.ogg
Etymology: From Old Swedish men, from Middle Low German men, man (“but, only”), probably from Old Saxon niwan; possibly under the influence of Old Swedish men (“while, during”) (modern Swedish medan, medans, mens). Cognate with modern Low German man. Etymology templates: {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|men}} Old Swedish men, {{der|sv|gml|men}} Middle Low German men, {{m|gml|man||but, only}} man (“but, only”), {{der|sv|osx|niwan}} Old Saxon niwan, {{der|sv|gmq-osw|men||while, during}} Old Swedish men (“while, during”), {{cog|sv|medan}} Swedish medan, {{m|sv|medans}} medans, {{m|sv|mens}} mens, {{cog|nds|man}} Low German man Head templates: {{head|sv|conjunction}} men
  1. but; introducing a clause that contrasts with the preceding clause, sentence or common belief.
    Sense id: en-men-sv-conj-If-tNeY1 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 43 7 50
  2. yet, but, however
    Sense id: en-men-sv-conj-NrQXECuG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /meːn/
Etymology: From Old Norse mein, cognate with Icelandic mein, Norwegian mein, Old Saxon mēn, Old English mān; cognate with Icelandic meinn (“which causes injury”), Old English mǣne (“evil, deceptive”, adj), Lithuanian maĭnas (“change”, noun), Proto-Slavic *měna (“change”, noun); from the Proto-Indo-European root *mei- (“to switch”). Etymology templates: {{inh|sv|non|mein}} Old Norse mein, {{cog|is|mein}} Icelandic mein, {{cog|no|mein}} Norwegian mein, {{cog|osx|mēn}} Old Saxon mēn, {{cog|ang|mān}} Old English mān, {{cog|is|meinn||which causes injury}} Icelandic meinn (“which causes injury”), {{cog|ang|mǣne|pos=adj|t=evil, deceptive}} Old English mǣne (“evil, deceptive”, adj), {{cog|lt|maĭnas||change|pos=n}} Lithuanian maĭnas (“change”, noun), {{cog|sla-pro|*měna||change|pos=n}} Proto-Slavic *měna (“change”, noun), {{inh|sv|ine-pro|-}} Proto-Indo-European, {{m|ine-pro|*mei-||to switch}} *mei- (“to switch”) Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=n|g2=|head=|sort=}} men n, {{sv-noun|n}} men n Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-n-zero}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], men [indefinite, nominative, singular], menet [definite, nominative, singular], men [indefinite, nominative, plural], menen [definite, nominative, plural], mens [genitive, indefinite, singular], menets [definite, genitive, singular], mens [genitive, indefinite, plural], menens [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. a handicap, long-time remnant of a physical or mental injury, which affects a person negatively Tags: neuter Related terms: menlös, lyte och men
    Sense id: en-men-sv-noun-mBG6DyEH Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 43 7 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/meːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "men"
}
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  "called_from": "inflection/2447",
  "msg": "rejected heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, BUT Swedish is not in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS; cleaned text: men",
  "path": [
    "men"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "men",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/2447",
  "msg": "rejected heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, BUT Swedish is not in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS; cleaned text: men",
  "path": [
    "men"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "men",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). 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.