Swedish noun

en flygel

grand piano, wing

Meaning

grand piano; wing

In Swedish: ett slags piano

Forms

Forms of flygel
Singular, indefiniteen flygel
Singular, definiteflygeln
Plural, indefiniteflyglar
Plural, definiteflyglarna

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

Practise flygel

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Is it en flygel or ett flygel?

Words built with flygel

  • vänsterflygel left wing

Questions

What does flygel mean in English?

flygel means “grand piano, wing”.

Is it en flygel or ett flygel?

It is en flygel, and “the grand piano” is flygeln.

What is the plural of flygel?

The plural of flygel is flyglar, and the definite plural is flyglarna.

Origin

From German Flügel (“wing”), equivalent to flyga (“to fly”) + -el (“agent suffix”).

Nearby common words

flygel is number 6,568 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

  • 6,564tillsätta add, appoint
  • 6,565utspela kataklysm, to be set, to play out, to take place (of a story that takes place somewhere)
  • 6,566tu two
  • 6,567uroxe aurochs, Bos primigenius (extinct European mammal), aurochs bull, ox
  • 6,569frimärke stamp
  • 6,570stum dumb, mute
  • 6,571ömtålig fragile, easily damaged
  • 6,572överklaga appeal
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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary