Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en blick

look, glance, gaze

Meaning

look, glance, gaze

In Swedish: sätt att se, ögonkast

Forms

Forms of blick
Singular, indefiniteen blick
Singular, definiteblicken
Plural, indefiniteblickar
Plural, definiteblickarna

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

Practise blick

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Is it en blick or ett blick?

blick in a sentence

  • han hade en fin blick för spelet
    he had a real flair for the game
  • kasta en blick
    have a look

Questions

What does blick mean in English?

blick means “look, glance, gaze”.

Is it en blick or ett blick?

It is en blick, and “the look” is blicken.

What is the plural of blick?

The plural of blick is blickar, and the definite plural is blickarna.

Similar words

tittögonkast

Origin

From Old Norse blíkja, from Proto-Germanic *bliką (“look”), *blīkaną (“to shine, gleam”).

Nearby common words

blick is number 2,142 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