"tjej" meaning in Swedish

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Noun

IPA: /ɕɛj/
Rhymes: -ɛj Etymology: Attested since 1851. From Tavringer Romani tjej, from Romani ćhaj (“girl”), a feminine form of ćhavo (“boy”). Derived from the root found in the Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙𑀸𑀯 (chāva), corresponding to Pali chāpa (“the young of an animal”). Etymology templates: {{bor|sv|rmu|tjej}} Tavringer Romani tjej, {{der|sv|rom|ćhaj||girl}} Romani ćhaj (“girl”), {{der|sv|pra-sau|𑀙𑀸𑀯}} Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙𑀸𑀯 (chāva), {{cog|pi|chāpa||the young of an animal}} Pali chāpa (“the young of an animal”) Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} tjej c, {{sv-noun|c}} tjej c Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-c-er}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], tjej [indefinite, nominative, singular], tjejen [definite, nominative, singular], tjejer [indefinite, nominative, plural], tjejerna [definite, nominative, plural], tjejs [genitive, indefinite, singular], tjejens [definite, genitive, singular], tjejers [genitive, indefinite, plural], tjejernas [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. (colloquial) a girl (young girl) Tags: colloquial, common-gender Synonyms: flicka, tös, brud
    Sense id: en-tjej-sv-noun-TwyD1vuq Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 33
  2. (colloquial) a girl, a gal (young woman (or older woman, ironically)) Tags: colloquial, common-gender Synonyms: kvinna, brud
    Sense id: en-tjej-sv-noun-xSLUfFf1 Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 33
  3. (colloquial) a girlfriend Tags: colloquial, common-gender Categories (topical): People Synonyms: flickvän, brud
    Sense id: en-tjej-sv-noun-tjnMN80~ Disambiguation of People: 0 38 62 Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 33 33 Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 20 32 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tjeja
Derived forms: tjejbacill, tjejband, tjejfest, tjejfotboll, tjejidrott, tjejig, tjejkast, tjejmiddag, tjejsnack, tjejtjusare, tjejtokig

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    },
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "tjejtokig"
    }
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      "source": "declension",
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        },
        {
          "english": "a present for a seven-year-old girl",
          "text": "en present till en sjuårig tjej",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "How old is the little one?",
          "text": "Hur gammal är lilltjejen?",
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          "text": "Det var bara vi tjejer i 50-årsåldern där",
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          "text": "Imorgon ska mina kompisar få träffa min nya tjej",
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        }
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      "ipa": "/ɕɛj/"
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      "word": "tjejbacill"
    },
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      "word": "tjejband"
    },
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      "word": "tjejfotboll"
    },
    {
      "word": "tjejidrott"
    },
    {
      "word": "tjejig"
    },
    {
      "word": "tjejkast"
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      "word": "tjejmiddag"
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    {
      "word": "tjejsnack"
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          "text": "Några tjejer i 14-årsåldern gick runt i affären",
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        },
        {
          "english": "a present for a seven-year-old girl",
          "text": "en present till en sjuårig tjej",
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        },
        {
          "english": "How old is the little one?",
          "text": "Hur gammal är lilltjejen?",
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        "a girl (young girl)"
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          "word": "flicka"
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        {
          "word": "tös"
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          "word": "brud"
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        {
          "english": "hit on a girl",
          "text": "ragga på en tjej",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "It was just us gals in our 50s there",
          "text": "Det var bara vi tjejer i 50-årsåldern där",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "a girl, a gal (young woman (or older woman, ironically))"
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          "girl",
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        [
          "gal",
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        "(colloquial) a girl, a gal (young woman (or older woman, ironically))"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "kvinna"
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        {
          "word": "brud"
        }
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        {
          "english": "Tomorrow my friends are going to meet my new girlfriend",
          "text": "Imorgon ska mina kompisar få träffa min nya tjej",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a girlfriend"
      ],
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        [
          "girlfriend",
          "girlfriend"
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      ],
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        "(colloquial) a girlfriend"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "flickvän"
        },
        {
          "word": "brud"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "common-gender"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕɛj/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛj"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tjeja"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "sv:tjej"
  ],
  "word": "tjej"
}

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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.