Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en förlåtelse

forgiveness

Meaning

forgiveness

In Swedish: ursäkt, överseende (med fel)

Forms

Forms of förlåtelse
Singular, indefinite	en förlåtelse
Singular, definite	förlåtelsen

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

Practise förlåtelse

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Is it en förlåtelse or ett förlåtelse?

förlåtelse in a sentence

be om förlåtelse
ask forgiveness
Jag ber om förlåtelse
I ask for forgiveness

Questions

What does förlåtelse mean in English?

förlåtelse means “forgiveness”.

Is it en förlåtelse or ett förlåtelse?

It is en förlåtelse, and “the forgiveness” is förlåtelsen.

Similar words

ursäkt

Origin

From Old Swedish forlatilse, equivalent to förlåta + -else.

Nearby common words

förlåtelse is number 2,840 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,836museum museum
2,837livstid age (whole duration of a being), a lifetime, Short for livstids fängelse (“life imprisonment”) (which is not commonly for life)
2,838road amused
2,839vinst prize, profit
2,841stolthet pride
2,842bal bundle, bale
2,843spänn krona coin
2,844anonym anonymous

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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