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"etymology_number": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "gmq-osw",
"3": "vara"
},
"expansion": "Old Swedish vara",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-osw",
"2": "væra"
},
"expansion": "væra",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "non",
"3": "vera"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse vera",
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{
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},
"expansion": "vesa",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wesaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wesaną",
"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "da",
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},
"expansion": "Danish være",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "vera"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic vera",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "være"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian være",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Swedish vara, væra from Old Norse vera, earlier vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. Cognate with Danish være, Icelandic vera, Norwegian være.",
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{
"form": "är",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "var",
"tags": [
"preterite"
]
},
{
"form": "varit",
"tags": [
"supine"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "irregular",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "vara",
"source": "conjugation",
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"active",
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"passive"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"active",
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"archaic",
"imperative",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
"passive",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"present"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"active",
"indicative",
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"passive",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"passive",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "äro",
"source": "conjugation",
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"active",
"archaic",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "voro",
"source": "conjugation",
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"active",
"archaic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
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"archaic",
"indicative",
"passive",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
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"archaic",
"indicative",
"passive",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
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"form": "vare",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"dated",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"dated",
"past",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
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"dated",
"passive",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"dated",
"passive",
"past",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "varande",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
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"6": "var",
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"8": "varit",
"9": "imperative",
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"name": "head"
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"4": "varit",
"5": "var",
"6": "varande",
"7": "",
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"pl": "äro",
"ppl": "voro",
"psbj": "vore",
"sbj": "vare"
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}
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"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "närvara"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "närvaro"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "tillvaro"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "var så god"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "varsågod"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "vara med"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "vara till"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "vara till för"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "övervara"
}
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Where have you been?",
"text": "Var har du varit?",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"to be",
"to occupy a place, to be (somewhere)"
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-r8jCoGF3",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "befinna"
},
{
"word": "finnas"
},
{
"word": "ligga"
},
{
"word": "sitta"
},
{
"word": "stå"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "There was a party yesterday",
"text": "Det var fest igår",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be",
"to occur, to take place"
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-0GBImaeO",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer\nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,\nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles",
"ref": "c. 1847, Carl August Hagberg, translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (c. 1601), act 3, scene 1",
"text": "Att vara eller icke vara, det är frågan:\nMånn’ ädlare att lida och fördraga\nEtt bittert ödes styng och pilar eller\nAtt ta till vapen mot ett haf af qval\nTo be or not to be– that is the question:",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "To be or not to be, that is the question",
"text": "Att vara eller inte vara, det är frågan",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be",
"to exist"
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-gnoshDZy",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"to be",
"(uncommon) to exist"
],
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{
"word": "finnas"
},
{
"word": "finnas till"
},
{
"word": "existera"
},
{
"word": "vara till"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncommon"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Bruce Wayne is Batman",
"text": "Bruce Wayne är Batman",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be",
"Indicates that the subject and object are the same."
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-vBMSWdF0",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"copulative",
"copular verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"to be",
"(copulative) Indicates that the subject and object are the same."
],
"tags": [
"copulative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "sv",
"name": "Mathematics",
"orig": "sv:Mathematics",
"parents": [
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "one plus one is two",
"text": "ett plus ett är två",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be",
"Indicates that the values on either side of an equation are the same."
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-lBKOdlOI",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"copulative",
"copular verb"
],
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"to be",
"(copulative, mathematics) Indicates that the values on either side of an equation are the same."
],
"tags": [
"copulative"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "Han blev president 2007",
"text": "He became president in 2007 (same in Swedish as in English)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She is a doctor",
"text": "Hon är läkare",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Is she a baker?",
"text": "Är hon bagare?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He was a soldier",
"text": "Han var soldat",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He has been a lieutenant",
"text": "Han har varit löjtnant",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She is a/the team captain",
"text": "Hon är lagkapten",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Han är frimurare\nHe is a Freemason",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He is a movie buff",
"text": "Han är filmfantast",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She has become a mother",
"text": "Hon har blivit mamma",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Who is the father of the children?",
"text": "Vem är far till barnen?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Who is the big sister and who is the little sister?",
"text": "Vem är storasyster och vem är lillasyster?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to be a human",
"text": "att vara människa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She is a doctor, a soldier, and a mother at the same time",
"text": "Hon är läkare, soldat och mamma på samma gång",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She is a skilled doctor (\"Skilled doctor\" is not considered a \"role,\" so an article (en) appears in this example, like in English)",
"text": "Hon är en skicklig läkare",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"to be",
"Indicates that the subject plays the role of or belongs to the group represented by the predicate nominal. This is idiomatically applied more broadly compared to English, as the examples below show. Including an article or making the noun definite – like in English – is not ungrammatical and does not change the meaning of the examples – it is only unidiomatic (and often intuitively redundant to native speakers, for example for giving a count of one (en/ett) to a role, similar to how \"became a president\" sounds to English speakers)."
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-p7DEJ77M",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"copulative",
"copular verb"
],
[
"en",
"en#Swedish"
],
[
"ett",
"ett#Swedish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"to be",
"(copulative) Indicates that the subject plays the role of or belongs to the group represented by the predicate nominal. This is idiomatically applied more broadly compared to English, as the examples below show. Including an article or making the noun definite – like in English – is not ungrammatical and does not change the meaning of the examples – it is only unidiomatic (and often intuitively redundant to native speakers, for example for giving a count of one (en/ett) to a role, similar to how \"became a president\" sounds to English speakers)."
],
"tags": [
"copulative"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "The sauce is creamy",
"text": "Såsen är krämig",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.",
"roman": "Men I villen icke draga ditupp, utan voren gensträviga mot Herrens, eder Guds, befallning.",
"text": "1917 translation, the Bible, Deuteronomy (Femte Mosebok), 1:26",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"to be",
"Connects a noun to an adjective that describes it."
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-1e9N4Yha",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"copulative",
"copular verb"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"to be",
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],
"tags": [
"copulative"
]
},
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"_dis": "1 1 3 1 2 9 13 12 12 3 20 13 1 2 1 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 2 9 13 12 18 4 25 13 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
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"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish terms suffixed with -a",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "The room is cleaned (is being cleaned right now (or, alternatively, is cleaned from time to time, as opposed to never being cleaned))",
"text": "Rummet städas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The room is clean (\"is cleaned\" in the sense of \"has been cleaned\")",
"text": "Rummet är städat",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The room is cleaned once a week",
"text": "Rummet städas en gång i veckan",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The room is clean once a week (an unusual thing to say in Swedish as well)",
"text": "Rummet är städat en gång i veckan",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The house was painted last week, so it was painted (had painted walls) when I walked past it an hour ago",
"text": "Huset målades förra veckan, så det var målat när jag gick förbi det för en timme sen",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "We were rescued by a rescue helicopter (a rescue helicopter came and rescued us)",
"text": "Vi räddades av en räddningshelikopter",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Vi var räddade\nWe had been rescued (\"We were rescued\" in the sense of \"We had (the property of having) been rescued\" as opposed to \"Someone came and rescued us\" – \"We were rescued\" is used to express both in English, but Swedish separates them)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The boy was saved by the dog",
"text": "Pojken räddades av hunden",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Pojken var räddad av hunden\nThe boy had the property of having been saved by the dog (had at some earlier time been saved by the dog – odd-sounding in Swedish too)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Pojken hade räddats av hunden\nThe boy had been saved by the dog (for comparison – idiomatic-sounding)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The car is driven (right now (or from time to time))",
"text": "Bilen körs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The car is driven (has been driven (in some context), has more than zero kilometers on the odometer (if talking generally))",
"text": "Bilen är körd",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"to be",
"Forms a passive voice that indicates a state or a completed action. The examples below show comparisons against -s, which also forms the passive voice. The examples are kept basic for the sake of illustration and do not always represent the most idiomatic way to say things in neither Swedish nor English."
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-B5S4lRdD",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
],
[
"-s",
"-s#Swedish"
]
],
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{
"word": "bli"
},
{
"word": "vardavart>"
}
]
},
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"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I have been out of bed for an hour",
"text": "Jag är uppstigen sedan en timme",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be",
"Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs."
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-g7CHExe8",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
]
],
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"to be",
"(archaic) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs."
],
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"archaic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to be",
"Used to indicate things like age, height, temperature, weather, ..."
],
"id": "en-vara-sv-verb-lvU9tr4j",
"links": [
[
"be",
"be"
]
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/²vɑːra/"
},
{
"ipa": "/vɑː/"
},
{
"other": "/eː/"
},
{
"other": "/ɛː/"
},
{
"other": "/ɛːr/"
},
{
"other": "[æːɾ]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-²ɑːra"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
},
{
"audio": "Sv-vara.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b6/Sv-vara.ogg/Sv-vara.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Sv-vara.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "strongly colloquial",
"word": "va"
}
],
"word": "vara"
}
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"etymology_number": 1,
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"2": "gmq-osw",
"3": "vara"
},
"expansion": "Old Swedish vara",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-osw",
"2": "væra"
},
"expansion": "væra",
"name": "m"
},
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"2": "non",
"3": "vera"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
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},
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"name": "m"
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{
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wesaną"
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"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wesaną",
"name": "der"
},
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"1": "da",
"2": "være"
},
"expansion": "Danish være",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "vera"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic vera",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "være"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian være",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Swedish vara, væra from Old Norse vera, earlier vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. Cognate with Danish være, Icelandic vera, Norwegian være.",
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-noun-unc-irreg-n",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"uncountable"
]
},
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"form": "varat",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"form": "varas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"form": "varats",
"source": "declension",
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"definite",
"genitive",
"uncountable"
]
}
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"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "n",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
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"name": "head"
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{
"args": {
"1": "n"
},
"expansion": "vara n",
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"2": "varat",
"3": "-",
"4": "-",
"5": "varas",
"6": "varats",
"7": "-",
"8": "-",
"definitions": "",
"gender": "Neuter",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"english": "Where have you been?",
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{
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{
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{
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"english": "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer\nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,\nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles",
"ref": "c. 1847, Carl August Hagberg, translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (c. 1601), act 3, scene 1",
"text": "Att vara eller icke vara, det är frågan:\nMånn’ ädlare att lida och fördraga\nEtt bittert ödes styng och pilar eller\nAtt ta till vapen mot ett haf af qval\nTo be or not to be– that is the question:",
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "vara till"
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],
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],
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"type": "example"
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],
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"be",
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"ref": "Han blev president 2007",
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"type": "example"
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{
"english": "She is a doctor",
"text": "Hon är läkare",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Is she a baker?",
"text": "Är hon bagare?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He was a soldier",
"text": "Han var soldat",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He has been a lieutenant",
"text": "Han har varit löjtnant",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She is a/the team captain",
"text": "Hon är lagkapten",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Han är frimurare\nHe is a Freemason",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "He is a movie buff",
"text": "Han är filmfantast",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She has become a mother",
"text": "Hon har blivit mamma",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Who is the father of the children?",
"text": "Vem är far till barnen?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Who is the big sister and who is the little sister?",
"text": "Vem är storasyster och vem är lillasyster?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "to be a human",
"text": "att vara människa",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She is a doctor, a soldier, and a mother at the same time",
"text": "Hon är läkare, soldat och mamma på samma gång",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "She is a skilled doctor (\"Skilled doctor\" is not considered a \"role,\" so an article (en) appears in this example, like in English)",
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],
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"(copulative) Indicates that the subject plays the role of or belongs to the group represented by the predicate nominal. This is idiomatically applied more broadly compared to English, as the examples below show. Including an article or making the noun definite – like in English – is not ungrammatical and does not change the meaning of the examples – it is only unidiomatic (and often intuitively redundant to native speakers, for example for giving a count of one (en/ett) to a role, similar to how \"became a president\" sounds to English speakers)."
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"english": "The sauce is creamy",
"text": "Såsen är krämig",
"type": "example"
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{
"english": "Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.",
"roman": "Men I villen icke draga ditupp, utan voren gensträviga mot Herrens, eder Guds, befallning.",
"text": "1917 translation, the Bible, Deuteronomy (Femte Mosebok), 1:26",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"copulative",
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"english": "The room is cleaned (is being cleaned right now (or, alternatively, is cleaned from time to time, as opposed to never being cleaned))",
"text": "Rummet städas",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The room is clean (\"is cleaned\" in the sense of \"has been cleaned\")",
"text": "Rummet är städat",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The room is cleaned once a week",
"text": "Rummet städas en gång i veckan",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The room is clean once a week (an unusual thing to say in Swedish as well)",
"text": "Rummet är städat en gång i veckan",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The house was painted last week, so it was painted (had painted walls) when I walked past it an hour ago",
"text": "Huset målades förra veckan, så det var målat när jag gick förbi det för en timme sen",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "We were rescued by a rescue helicopter (a rescue helicopter came and rescued us)",
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"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Vi var räddade\nWe had been rescued (\"We were rescued\" in the sense of \"We had (the property of having) been rescued\" as opposed to \"Someone came and rescued us\" – \"We were rescued\" is used to express both in English, but Swedish separates them)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The boy was saved by the dog",
"text": "Pojken räddades av hunden",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Pojken var räddad av hunden\nThe boy had the property of having been saved by the dog (had at some earlier time been saved by the dog – odd-sounding in Swedish too)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Pojken hade räddats av hunden\nThe boy had been saved by the dog (for comparison – idiomatic-sounding)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The car is driven (right now (or from time to time))",
"text": "Bilen körs",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The car is driven (has been driven (in some context), has more than zero kilometers on the odometer (if talking generally))",
"text": "Bilen är körd",
"type": "example"
}
],
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],
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"be"
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[
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"-s#Swedish"
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{
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"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "apoteksvara"
},
{
"word": "basvara"
},
{
"word": "beställningsvara"
},
{
"word": "bristvara"
},
{
"word": "bruksvara"
},
{
"word": "byggvara"
},
{
"word": "bytesvara"
},
{
"word": "charkuterivara"
},
{
"word": "charkvara"
},
{
"word": "dagligvara"
},
{
"word": "dryckesvara"
},
{
"word": "dussinvara"
},
{
"word": "ersättningsvara"
},
{
"word": "exportvara"
},
{
"word": "fabriksvara"
},
{
"word": "frysvara"
},
{
"word": "färdigvara"
},
{
"word": "färskvara"
},
{
"word": "förbrukningsvara"
},
{
"word": "galanterivara"
},
{
"word": "gottköpsvara"
},
{
"word": "handelsvara"
},
{
"word": "hygienvara"
},
{
"word": "hårdvara"
},
{
"word": "importvara"
},
{
"word": "industrivara"
},
{
"word": "insatsvara"
},
{
"word": "järnvara"
},
{
"word": "kapitalvara"
},
{
"word": "kilovara"
},
{
"word": "kolonialvara"
},
{
"word": "konditorivara"
},
{
"word": "konsumtionsvara"
},
{
"word": "kvalitetsvara"
},
{
"word": "kylvara"
},
{
"word": "köttvara"
},
{
"word": "lockvara"
},
{
"word": "manufakturvara"
},
{
"word": "maskinvara"
},
{
"word": "matvara"
},
{
"word": "mejerivara"
},
{
"word": "metervara"
},
{
"word": "mjukvara"
},
{
"word": "märkesvara"
},
{
"word": "nödvändighetsvara"
},
{
"word": "programvara"
},
{
"word": "pälsvara"
},
{
"word": "reavara"
},
{
"word": "råvara"
},
{
"word": "specerivara"
},
{
"word": "stapelvara"
},
{
"word": "starkvara"
},
{
"word": "substitutvara"
},
{
"word": "surrogatvara"
},
{
"word": "sällanköpsvara"
},
{
"word": "säsongsvara"
},
{
"word": "sötvara"
},
{
"word": "textilvara"
},
{
"word": "tobaksvara"
},
{
"word": "torrvara"
},
{
"word": "trikåvara"
},
{
"word": "trävara"
},
{
"word": "utskottsvara"
},
{
"word": "vardagsvara"
},
{
"word": "varubelåning"
},
{
"word": "varubeställning"
},
{
"word": "varubeteckning"
},
{
"word": "varubil"
},
{
"word": "varubrist"
},
{
"word": "varubud"
},
{
"word": "varubuss"
},
{
"word": "varubörs"
},
{
"word": "varudeklaration"
},
{
"word": "varudeklarera"
},
{
"word": "varudistribution"
},
{
"word": "varuexport"
},
{
"word": "varufakta"
},
{
"word": "varuförsörjning"
},
{
"word": "varugrupp"
},
{
"word": "varuhiss"
},
{
"word": "varuhus"
},
{
"word": "varuimport"
},
{
"word": "varuintag"
},
{
"word": "varukorg"
},
{
"word": "varukännedom"
},
{
"word": "varulag"
},
{
"word": "varulager"
},
{
"word": "varumängd"
},
{
"word": "varumärke"
},
{
"word": "varumässa"
},
{
"word": "varunamn"
},
{
"word": "varuparti"
},
{
"word": "varupris"
},
{
"word": "varuproduktion"
},
{
"word": "varuprov"
},
{
"word": "varuskatt"
},
{
"word": "varuslag"
},
{
"word": "varusmuggling"
},
{
"word": "varusortiment"
},
{
"word": "varutrafik"
},
{
"word": "varutransport"
},
{
"word": "varuutbyte"
},
{
"word": "varuvagn"
},
{
"word": "vitvara"
},
{
"word": "våtvara"
}
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{
"glosses": [
"a ware, goods, article"
],
"links": [
[
"ware",
"ware"
],
[
"goods",
"goods"
],
[
"article",
"article"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/²vɑːra/"
},
{
"ipa": "/vɑː/"
},
{
"other": "/eː/"
},
{
"other": "/ɛː/"
},
{
"other": "/ɛːr/"
},
{
"other": "[æːɾ]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-²ɑːra"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
},
{
"audio": "Sv-vara.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b6/Sv-vara.ogg/Sv-vara.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Sv-vara.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
"word": "vara"
}
{
"categories": [
"Rhymes:Swedish/²ɑːra",
"Rhymes:Swedish/²ɑːra/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:Swedish/ɑː",
"Rhymes:Swedish/ɑː/1 syllable",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish terms suffixed with -a",
"Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Swedish terms with audio links",
"Swedish verbs",
"Swedish weak verbs"
],
"etymology_number": 5,
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "var",
"3": "-a",
"t1": "pus"
},
"expansion": "var (“pus”) + -a",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Attested since 1664. From var (“pus”) + -a.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "varar",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "varade",
"tags": [
"preterite"
]
},
{
"form": "varat",
"tags": [
"supine"
]
},
{
"form": "vara",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "vara",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "varas",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive",
"passive"
]
},
{
"form": "varat",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"supine"
]
},
{
"form": "varats",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"passive",
"supine"
]
},
{
"form": "vara",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"passive"
]
},
{
"form": "varen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"archaic",
"imperative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"imperative",
"passive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "varar",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"indicative",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "varade",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"indicative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "varas",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"passive",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "varades",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"passive",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "vara",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"archaic",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "varade",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"archaic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "varas",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"indicative",
"passive",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "varades",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"indicative",
"passive",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "vare",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"dated",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "varade",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"active",
"dated",
"past",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "vares",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"dated",
"passive",
"present",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "varades",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"dated",
"passive",
"past",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "varande",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"10": "vara",
"2": "verbs",
"3": "present",
"4": "varar",
"5": "preterite",
"6": "varade",
"7": "supine",
"8": "varat",
"9": "imperative",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "vara (present varar, preterite varade, supine varat, imperative vara)",
"name": "head"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"nopp": "1"
},
"name": "sv-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "The wound began to fill with pus after a few hours.",
"text": "Såret började vara efter några timmar.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to generate pus"
],
"links": [
[
"pus",
"pus"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/²vɑːra/"
},
{
"ipa": "/vɑː/"
},
{
"other": "/eː/"
},
{
"other": "/ɛː/"
},
{
"other": "/ɛːr/"
},
{
"other": "[æːɾ]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-²ɑːra"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː"
},
{
"audio": "Sv-vara.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b6/Sv-vara.ogg/Sv-vara.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Sv-vara.ogg",
"text": "audio"
}
],
"word": "vara"
}
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