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myra in a sentence

• flitig som en myra
  busy as a bee
• Myrstacken är full av myror
  The anthill is full of ants
• Vilka är det mest synd om i skogen? Jo, myrstackarna!
  Who [plural] has the toughest time [evokes the most pity / makes you feel the sorriest for them] in the forest? It's the anthills [myrstackarna] / the poor ants [myra (“ant”) + stackarna (“the poor things”)]! [widespread pun]

Expressions

• sätta myror i huvudet på någon
  make sby's head reel

Words built with myra

• myrstack anthill
• rödmyra red ant

Questions

Origin

From Old Swedish mȳra, from Old Norse *mýra, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ (“ant”), from Proto-Indo-European *mowro-, *morwi (“ant”).

Nearby common words

myra is number 4,401 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 4,397ödsla waste
• 4,398genomgå undergo, live through
• 4,399förföra seduce
• 4,400klå beat, trash
• 4,402rand edge, border; stripe, streak, rib
• 4,403googla to google, to search for something on the Google search engine, to google, to search for something on the Internet using with any search engine
• 4,404villkorlig conditional (subject to conditions)
• 4,405splittra break, shatter