Swedish noun· top 2,000 most common

en rock

rock, coat/¹rɔk/

Meaning

rock; coat

In Swedish: rytmisk populärmusik med elinstrument

Forms

Forms of rock
Singular, indefiniteen rock
Singular, definiterocken
Plural, indefiniterockar
Plural, definiterockarna

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

Practise rock

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Is it en rock or ett rock?

Words built with rock

  • morgonrock dressing gown
  • städrock (cleaner's) overall
  • poplinrock poplin coat
  • prästrock cassock
  • rockkrage coat collar

Questions

What does rock mean in English?

rock means “rock, coat”.

Is it en rock or ett rock?

It is en rock, and “the rock” is rocken.

What is the plural of rock?

The plural of rock is rockar, and the definite plural is rockarna.

Origin

From Old Swedish rokker, from Middle Low German rock, from Old Saxon rok, from Proto-West Germanic *(h)rokk, from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz.

Nearby common words

rock is number 1,788 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