Swedish pronoun · determiner· top 500 most common

all

all/al/

all as a pronoun

Meaning

all

In Swedish: hela (mängden av)

all as a determiner

Meaning

all

Practise all

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What does all mean?

all in a sentence

  • allt brödet
    all the bread
  • all mjölken
    all the milk
  • alla som vill kan gå
    everyone who wants to can leave
  • alla böckerna
    all the books
  • Drack du upp all mjölk?
    Did you drink all the milk?

Expressions

  • med all rätt
    very rightly, with perfect justice
  • (ha) all ("stor") anledning att
    have every reason for
  • vad i all världen?
    what on earth?
  • med all säkerhet (el. sannolikhet)
    certainly, doubtlessly, in all probability
  • vad i all sin dar?
    what on earth?
  • för all framtid
    for ever more, for all time

Words built with all

  • allätare omnivore
  • allomfattande all-embracing, all-encompassing
  • allvetare walking encyclopaedia

Questions

What does all mean in English?

all means “all”.

Where the course teaches it

Origin

From Old Swedish alder, from Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-.

Nearby common words

all is number 327 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary