Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en frost

frost

Meaning

frost

In Swedish: minusgrader, kyla

Forms

Forms of frost
Singular, indefiniteen frost
Singular, definitefrosten

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

Practise frost

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Is it en frost or ett frost?

Words built with frost

  • nattfrost night frost
  • frostgrad degree below freezing point

Questions

What does frost mean in English?

frost means “frost”.

Is it en frost or ett frost?

It is en frost, and “the frost” is frosten.

Origin

From Old Norse frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz.

Nearby common words

frost is number 4,654 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