See vit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"english": "– The light men sometimes marry dark women, and their children become light; but yet never has a black man got a white woman.",
"ref": "1917, August Strindberg, “Sagan om Stig Storverks son.”, in Hövdingaminnen, page 11:",
"text": "– De ljusa männen äkta ibland mörka kvinnor, och deras barn bli ljusa; men ännu aldrig har en svart man fått en vit kvinna",
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},
{
"english": "A political poster where a white man and a black woman hug each other is provoking debate in South Africa.",
"ref": "2012, Görrel Espelund, Andreas Karlsson, “Historien väger tungt för Sydafrikas unga”, in Sydsvenskan:",
"text": "En politisk affisch där en vit man och en svart kvinna håller om varandra väcker debatt i Sydafrika.",
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}
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"english": "Much compared to what was paid illicitly, but not much for two months' full-time work with a legitimate contract.",
"ref": "2014, Johanna Karlsson, “Han ville få sin lön – men fick då sparken”, in Kvällsposten:",
"text": "Mycket jämfört med de som betalades svart, men inte mycket för två månaders heltidsarbete på vitt kontrakt.",
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"english": "One person said that the most important thing that happened was that he had a dry week. He had alcohol problems and stood for it.",
"ref": "2010, “\"Vad var viktigast för dig i veckan?\"”, in Göteborgs-Posten:",
"text": "En person berättade att det viktigaste som hänt var att han hade haft en vit vecka. Han hade alkoholproblem och stod för det.",
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{
"english": "Making January a dry month, after consuming a good deal of alcohol during the last year, is not something that will have any positive health effect.",
"ref": "2010, “Läkare ser vit januari som ”meningslös, medicinskt sett””, in Dagens Nyheter:",
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"english": "Statistically you have to go north of Siljan to make sure you have a white Christmas.",
"ref": "2005, “Ingen vit jul i södra Sverige”, in Dagens Nyheter:",
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},
{
"english": "It became a white Easter in all of Sweden.",
"ref": "2008, Karin Abrahamsson, “Sverige fick en vit påsk”, in Aftonbladet:",
"text": "Det blev en vit påsk i hela Sverige.",
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},
{
"english": "The autumn is warm, but will it be a white winter in Skåne, like the last two, or will it be wet, as usual?",
"ref": "2011, Mikael Anjou, “Ingen snö så vitt man kan se”, in Sydsvenskan:",
"text": "Hösten är varm, men blir det en vit vinter i Skåne, som de två senaste, eller blir det en våt, som vanligt?",
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"text": "Coordinate term: original"
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"english": "White snus sales increased by 255(!) percent while nicotine-free snus increased by 20 percent.",
"ref": "2019, Joakim Almén, “Det här är svenskarnas favoritsnus”, in Café:",
"text": "Försäljningen av vitt snus ökade med 255(!) procent medan nikotinfritt snus ökade med 20 procent.",
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"text": "– De ljusa männen äkta ibland mörka kvinnor, och deras barn bli ljusa; men ännu aldrig har en svart man fått en vit kvinna",
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"ref": "2012, Görrel Espelund, Andreas Karlsson, “Historien väger tungt för Sydafrikas unga”, in Sydsvenskan:",
"text": "En politisk affisch där en vit man och en svart kvinna håller om varandra väcker debatt i Sydafrika.",
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"text": "Mycket jämfört med de som betalades svart, men inte mycket för två månaders heltidsarbete på vitt kontrakt.",
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"ref": "2010, “\"Vad var viktigast för dig i veckan?\"”, in Göteborgs-Posten:",
"text": "En person berättade att det viktigaste som hänt var att han hade haft en vit vecka. Han hade alkoholproblem och stod för det.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Making January a dry month, after consuming a good deal of alcohol during the last year, is not something that will have any positive health effect.",
"ref": "2010, “Läkare ser vit januari som ”meningslös, medicinskt sett””, in Dagens Nyheter:",
"text": "Att göra januari till en vit månad, efter att ha konsumerat väl mycket alkohol under det år som passerat, är inget som ger någon positiv hälsoeffekt.",
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"english": "Statistically you have to go north of Siljan to make sure you have a white Christmas.",
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"text": "Statistiskt sett får man bege sig norr om Siljan för att försäkra sig om en vit jul.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "It became a white Easter in all of Sweden.",
"ref": "2008, Karin Abrahamsson, “Sverige fick en vit påsk”, in Aftonbladet:",
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"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "The autumn is warm, but will it be a white winter in Skåne, like the last two, or will it be wet, as usual?",
"ref": "2011, Mikael Anjou, “Ingen snö så vitt man kan se”, in Sydsvenskan:",
"text": "Hösten är varm, men blir det en vit vinter i Skåne, som de två senaste, eller blir det en våt, som vanligt?",
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"ref": "2019, Joakim Almén, “Det här är svenskarnas favoritsnus”, in Café:",
"text": "Försäljningen av vitt snus ökade med 255(!) procent medan nikotinfritt snus ökade med 20 procent.",
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}
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"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'common singular'",
"path": [
"vit"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "vit",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'all'",
"path": [
"vit"
],
"section": "Swedish",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "vit",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/20250113a",
"msg": "Colspan 999 over 30, set to 1",
"path": [
"vit"
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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 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). 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.