"sten" meaning in Swedish

See sten in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /steːn/, [steꜜɜn] Audio: Sv-sten.ogg
Etymology: From Old Swedish sten, from Old Norse steinn, from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂-. Etymology templates: {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|sten}} Old Swedish sten, {{inh|sv|non|steinn}} Old Norse steinn, {{inh|sv|gmq-pro|ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ}} Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*stainaz}} Proto-Germanic *stainaz, {{der|sv|ine-pro|*steyh₂-}} Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||||g=c|g2=|g3=|g4=|head=|sort=}} sten c, {{sv-noun|c}} sten c Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], sten [indefinite, nominative, singular], stens [genitive, indefinite, singular], stenen [definite, nominative, singular], stenens [definite, genitive, singular], stenar [indefinite, nominative, plural], stenars [genitive, indefinite, plural], stenarna [definite, nominative, plural], stenarnas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. (sometimes collectively) a stone; a rock Tags: collective, common-gender, sometimes
    Sense id: en-sten-sv-noun-urXQnG9a
  2. (sometimes collectively) a stone; a rock
    a pebble
    Tags: collective, common-gender, sometimes Synonyms: småsten, gruskorn (english: piece of gravel)
    Sense id: en-sten-sv-noun-RPm5ap04 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 4 55 37 5
  3. (sometimes collectively) a stone; a rock
    a boulder
    Tags: collective, common-gender, sometimes Synonyms: stenblock, stenbumling, flyttblock (english: glacial erratic)
    Sense id: en-sten-sv-noun-FsWakNpg
  4. (uncountable) stone; rock Tags: common-gender, uncountable Synonyms: berg (english: rock (bedrock)), berggrund
    Sense id: en-sten-sv-noun-KblSlebn
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: berg, berggrund, grus, klapperstensfält, klippa, kobbe, sandkorn, singel, skär

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Sv-sten.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sten"
}

Download raw JSONL data for sten meaning in Swedish (5.5kB)

{
  "called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
  "msg": "''a stone; a rock'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
  "path": [
    "sten"
  ],
  "section": "Swedish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "sten",
  "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.

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.