Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en övervakning

surveillance

Meaning

surveillance

Forms

Forms of övervakning
Singular, indefiniteen övervakning
Singular, definiteövervakningen

övervakning is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor övervakning, den stora övervakningen. Check another noun

Practise övervakning

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Is it en övervakning or ett övervakning?

Questions

What does övervakning mean in English?

övervakning means “surveillance”.

Is it en övervakning or ett övervakning?

It is en övervakning, and “the surveillance” is övervakningen.

Origin

From övervaka + -ning, like German Überwachung.

Nearby common words

övervakning is number 4,055 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

  • 4,051inomhus indoors
  • 4,052slockna go out; die down, drop off
  • 4,053blöt soggy, wet
  • 4,054vidrigt disgusting
  • 4,056bokad booked, reserved (of a ticket, a seat)
  • 4,057stank stank
  • 4,058angrepp attack
  • 4,059avrättning execution (event or act of putting someone who can not reasonably defend themselves to death (as punishment))
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