Swedish adverb· top 5,000 most common
nämligen
namely, for
Meaning
namely; for
In Swedish: närmare bestämt
Practise nämligen
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nämligen in a sentence
- boken handlar om en bristvara, nämligen oljanthe book is about a commodity in short supply, namely oil
- jag kunde inte komma -- jag var nämligen sjukI couldn't come -- I was sick, you see
Questions
What does nämligen mean in English?
nämligen means “namely, for”.
Similar words
Origin
From Low German nemlik + -en
Nearby common words
nämligen is number 4,066 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

