Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en robot

robot, guided missile

Meaning

robot; guided missile

In Swedish: maskin som beter sig som om den vore intelligent

Forms

Forms of robot
Singular, indefiniteen robot
Singular, definiteroboten
Plural, indefiniterobotar
Plural, definiterobotarna

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

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robot in a sentence

  • hon gick omkring som en robot
    she went about like a robot
  • Plåt-Niklas är en robot
    Sheet-Niklas is a robot

Words built with robot

  • industrirobot industrial robot
  • robotvapen guided missile
  • luftvärnsrobot surface-to-air missile

Questions

What does robot mean in English?

robot means “robot, guided missile”.

Is it en robot or ett robot?

It is en robot, and “the robot” is roboten.

What is the plural of robot?

The plural of robot is robotar, and the definite plural is robotarna.

Origin

Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”), from Old Czech robota, from Proto-Slavic *orbota, from *orbiti + *-ota.

Nearby common words

robot is number 2,125 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. Browse the dictionary