"ve" meaning in Swedish

See ve in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

IPA: /veː/
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German. Etymology templates: {{der|sv|gmq-osw|ve}} Old Swedish ve, {{der|sv|non|vei}} Old Norse vei, {{der|sv|gem-pro|*wai}} Proto-Germanic *wai, {{der|sv|ine-pro|*wai}} Proto-Indo-European *wai, {{cog|da|ve}} Danish ve, {{cog|is|vei}} Icelandic vei Head templates: {{head|sv|interjection}} ve
  1. woe, pity you!
    Sense id: en-ve-sv-intj-w~dofpM9 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Swedish links with redundant alt parameters, Swedish links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Swedish links with redundant alt parameters: 47 53 Disambiguation of Swedish links with redundant wikilinks: 47 53

Noun

IPA: /veː/
Rhymes: -eː Etymology: From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German. Etymology templates: {{der|sv|gmq-osw|ve}} Old Swedish ve, {{der|sv|non|vei}} Old Norse vei, {{der|sv|gem-pro|*wai}} Proto-Germanic *wai, {{der|sv|ine-pro|*wai}} Proto-Indo-European *wai, {{cog|da|ve}} Danish ve, {{cog|is|vei}} Icelandic vei Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=n|g2=|head=|sort=}} ve n, {{sv-noun|n}} ve n Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], ve [indefinite, nominative, singular], ves [genitive, indefinite, singular], ve [definite, nominative, singular], ves [definite, genitive, singular], ve [indefinite, nominative, plural], ves [genitive, indefinite, plural], ve [definite, nominative, plural], ves [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. woe, misery Tags: neuter Derived forms: veklaga, veklagan, vemod, verop Related terms: väl och ve
    Sense id: en-ve-sv-noun-Tja0wDud Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Swedish links with redundant alt parameters, Swedish links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Swedish links with redundant alt parameters: 47 53 Disambiguation of Swedish links with redundant wikilinks: 47 53

Inflected forms

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "gmq-osw",
        "3": "ve"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Swedish ve",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "vei"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse vei",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *wai",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wai",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "ve"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish ve",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "vei"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic vei",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.\nCognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "interjection"
      },
      "expansion": "ve",
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    }
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  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "text": "ve dig!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "ack och ve!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "woe, pity you!"
      ],
      "id": "en-ve-sv-intj-w~dofpM9",
      "links": [
        [
          "woe",
          "woe"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/veː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eː"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "V (the letter)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ve"
}

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      },
      "expansion": "Old Swedish ve",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "non",
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      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse vei",
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      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *wai",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "ve"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish ve",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "vei"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic vei",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.\nCognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ves",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ves",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ves",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "head"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "veklaga"
        },
        {
          "word": "veklagan"
        },
        {
          "word": "vemod"
        },
        {
          "word": "verop"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "your weal and woe, your fortune and misery, (idiomatically) your welfare / well-being",
          "text": "ditt väl och ve",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Woe and horror! (Horror of horrors!)",
          "text": "Ve och fasa!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "woe, misery"
      ],
      "id": "en-ve-sv-noun-Tja0wDud",
      "links": [
        [
          "woe",
          "woe"
        ],
        [
          "misery",
          "misery"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "väl och ve"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/veː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eː"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "V (the letter)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ve"
}
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    "Pages with entries",
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    "Swedish interjections",
    "Swedish lemmas",
    "Swedish links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
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    "Swedish nouns",
    "Swedish terms derived from Old Norse",
    "Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish",
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    },
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "args": {
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
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      "expansion": "Danish ve",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "vei"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic vei",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.\nCognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.",
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          "text": "ve dig!",
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        },
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        }
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        "woe, pity you!"
      ],
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        [
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        ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/veː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eː"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "V (the letter)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ve"
}

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    },
    {
      "word": "veklagan"
    },
    {
      "word": "vemod"
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      "word": "verop"
    }
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "vei"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic vei",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.\nCognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ves",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ves",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ves",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ves",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "ve n",
      "name": "head"
    },
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  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "väl och ve"
    }
  ],
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "your weal and woe, your fortune and misery, (idiomatically) your welfare / well-being",
          "text": "ditt väl och ve",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Woe and horror! (Horror of horrors!)",
          "text": "Ve och fasa!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "woe, misery"
      ],
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        [
          "woe",
          "woe"
        ],
        [
          "misery",
          "misery"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/veː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eː"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "V (the letter)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ve"
}

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