Swedish noun

en gylf

fly/jʏlf/

Meaning

fly

In Swedish: öppning på framsidan av byxor

Forms

Forms of gylf
Singular, indefinite	en gylf
Singular, definite	gylfen
Plural, indefinite	gylfar
Plural, definite	gylfarna

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

Practise gylf

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Is it en gylf or ett gylf?

gylf in a sentence

Han drog ner gylfen
He unzipped his fly
Du har glömt att stänga gylfen
Your fly's open

Questions

What does gylf mean in English?

gylf means “fly”.

Is it en gylf or ett gylf?

It is en gylf, and “the fly” is gylfen.

What is the plural of gylf?

The plural of gylf is gylfar, and the definite plural is gylfarna.

Origin

Cognate of Dutch gulp, Danish gylp.

Nearby common words

gylf is number 9,097 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

9,093tölp boor
9,094förstfödd firstborn, a firstborn
9,095mobbad bullied
9,096amok amuck, amok
9,098nosa sniff
9,099ding mad, crazy
9,100krisa to suffer a crisis (sometimes hyperbolically)
9,101sjukförsäkring income protection insurance

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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