"snåla" meaning in Swedish

See snåla in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: snål (“cheap, stingy”) + -a Etymology templates: {{suf|sv|snål|a|t1=cheap, stingy}} snål (“cheap, stingy”) + -a Head templates: {{head|sv|adjective form}} snåla
  1. inflection of snål:
    definite singular     Tags: definite, form-of, singular Form of: snål
    Sense id: en-snåla-sv-adj-dG8SLq94
  2. inflection of snål:
    plural     Tags: form-of, plural Form of: snål
    Sense id: en-snåla-sv-adj-po8kJM-t

Verb

Etymology: snål (“cheap, stingy”) + -a Etymology templates: {{suf|sv|snål|a|t1=cheap, stingy}} snål (“cheap, stingy”) + -a Head templates: {{head|sv|verbs|present|snålar|preterite|snålade|supine|snålat|imperative|snåla|head=}} snåla (present snålar, preterite snålade, supine snålat, imperative snåla) Inflection templates: {{sv-conj-wk|nopp=1}} Forms: snålar [present], snålade [preterite], snålat [supine], snåla [imperative], weak [table-tags], snåla [active, infinitive], snålas [infinitive, passive], snålat [active, supine], snålats [passive, supine], snåla [active, imperative], - [imperative, passive], snålen [active, archaic, imperative, plural], - [archaic, imperative, passive, plural], snålar [active, indicative, present], snålade [active, indicative, past], snålas [indicative, passive, present], snålades [indicative, passive, past], snåla [active, archaic, indicative, plural, present], snålade [active, archaic, indicative, past, plural], snålas [archaic, indicative, passive, plural, present], snålades [archaic, indicative, passive, past, plural], snåle [active, dated, present, subjunctive], snålade [active, dated, past, subjunctive], snåles [dated, passive, present, subjunctive], snålades [dated, passive, past, subjunctive], snålande [participle, present], - [participle, past]
  1. to be cheap, to be stingy, to skimp Synonyms: knussla
    Sense id: en-snåla-sv-verb-5r1fj6z3
  2. (when clear from context, semi-ironic) to economize
    Sense id: en-snåla-sv-verb-5nuJARyA
  3. (with ihop) to scrape together (through being frugal)
    Sense id: en-snåla-sv-verb-dI7UiU~9 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Swedish terms suffixed with -a Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 10 6 3 70 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 15 3 2 66 Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 7 2 62 Disambiguation of Swedish terms suffixed with -a: 14 13 9 6 58

Inflected forms

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      "form": "snålade",
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    {
      "form": "snålat",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    {
      "form": "snålat",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "supine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snålats",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "passive",
        "supine"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "imperative",
        "plural"
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    },
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    },
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      "form": "snålande",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present"
      ]
    },
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  "lang": "Swedish",
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          "text": "Så dyrt är det inte. Sluta snåla!",
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        {
          "english": "Don't skimp on the ketchup",
          "text": "Snåla inte med ketchupen",
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          "snål",
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    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "indicative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snålade",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "indicative",
        "past"
      ]
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    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
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          "english": "Don't skimp on the ketchup",
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}

Download raw JSONL data for snåla meaning in Swedish (5.2kB)

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  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "snåla",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.