en lösen
Meaning
ransom; password; watchword; fee
In Swedish: avgift för att få ut en handling (en postförsändelse etc) eller en fängslad person
Forms
| Singular, indefinite | en lösen |
|---|---|
| Singular, definite | lösen |
lösen is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor lösen, den stora lösen. Check another noun
Practise lösen
1 / 1Is it en lösen or ett lösen?
Words built with lösen
- lösensumma ransom
Questions
What does lösen mean in English?
lösen means “ransom, password”.
Is it en lösen or ett lösen?
It is en lösen, and “the ransom” is lösen.
Origin
From Old Swedish lø̄sn, from Old Norse lausn from Proto-Germanic *lausīniz.
Nearby common words
lösen is number 9,601 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
- 9,597oskuldsfull innocent (free from immorality), (sometimes) naive (through assuming too much good of people, due to lack of life experience or otherwise)
- 9,598busa be up to mischief
- 9,599avlida pass away (on), die
- 9,600hack cut, notch
- 9,602katoliker catholics
- 9,603gudomligt divinely
- 9,604spagetti spaghetti
- 9,605mopp mop, a mop
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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