Swedish noun· top 2,000 most common

en and

(wild) duck/and/

Meaning

(wild) duck

In Swedish: sjöfågel av släktet Anas

Forms

Forms of and
Singular, indefinite	en and
Singular, definite	anden
Plural, indefinite	änder
Plural, definite	änderna

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

Practise and

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Is it en and or ett and?

and in a sentence

mata änderna i parken
feed the ducks in the park

Questions

What does and mean in English?

and means “(wild) duck”.

Is it en and or ett and?

It is en and, and “the ” is anden.

What is the plural of and?

The plural of and is änder, and the definite plural is änderna.

Origin

Inherited from Old Norse ǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”).

Nearby common words

and is number 1,603 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

1,599född born
1,600dumpa dump
1,601jord Earth, soil
1,602upprepa repeat
1,604levde lived
1,605källare cellar
1,606skydd defence, security
1,607noga exactly, carefully

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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