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elände in a sentence

• till råga på allt elände började det regna
  on top of it all, it began to rain
• Den är maläten. Kasta eländet.
  It's moth-eaten. Throw the wretched thing away.
• Nu är fåglarna och äter i jordgubbslandet igen. Stick härifrån, era eländen!
  Now the birds are eating in the strawberry patch again. Get out of here, you wretches!

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Origin

From Old Swedish ælænde, answering to Danish elende; from Middle Low German elende, ellende, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *land (“land”).

Nearby common words

elände is number 5,029 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 5,025latin Latin
• 5,026struktur structure, texture
• 5,027ondskefull evil, sinister, malevolent, wicked
• 5,028förberedd prepared
• 5,030inkomst proceeds, income
• 5,031trakassera harass
• 5,032vulkan volcano
• 5,033tupplur a nap (a short period of sleep, especially during the day)