Swedish noun

en dammsugare

a vacuum cleaner, a hoover, a punsch-roll; a kind of pastry filled with cake crumbs, butter, and cocoa, flavoured with punsch liqueur, covered in marzipan and with ends coated in chocolate

Meaning

a vacuum cleaner, a hoover; a punsch-roll; a kind of pastry filled with cake crumbs, butter, and cocoa, flavoured with punsch liqueur, covered in marzipan and with ends coated in chocolate

Forms

Forms of dammsugare
Singular, indefiniteen dammsugare
Singular, definitedammsugaren
Plural, indefinitedammsugare
Plural, definitedammsugarna

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

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dammsugare in a sentence

  • dammsuga med en dammsugare
    vacuum with a vacuum cleaner

Questions

What does dammsugare mean in English?

dammsugare means “a vacuum cleaner, a hoover, a punsch-roll; a kind of pastry filled with cake crumbs, butter, and cocoa, flavoured with punsch liqueur, covered in marzipan and with ends coated in chocolate”.

Is it en dammsugare or ett dammsugare?

It is en dammsugare, and “the a vacuum cleaner” is dammsugaren.

What is the plural of dammsugare?

dammsugare doesn't change in the plural: en dammsugare, två dammsugare (definite: dammsugarna).

Origin

From damm (“dust”) + sugare (“sucker”).

Nearby common words

dammsugare is number 8,924 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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