Swedish adverb· top 1,000 most common

plötsligt

suddenly

Meaning

suddenly

In Swedish: hastigt och oväntat

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What does plötsligt mean?

plötsligt in a sentence

plötsligt kom en åskskur
suddenly there was a thunderstorm

Questions

What does plötsligt mean in English?

plötsligt means “suddenly”.

Similar words

plötsligenabrupt

Nearby common words

plötsligt is number 975 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

970patient patient
971nio nine
973tredje third
974meter metre, (meter (US))
976orsaka cause
977knappt slightly less than, hardly
978behålla retain, keep
979slutet closed

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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