Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en sand

sand

Meaning

sand

In Swedish: material av finmalt mineral

Forms

Forms of sand
Singular, indefiniteen sand
Singular, definitesanden

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

Practise sand

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Is it en sand or ett sand?

sand in a sentence

  • sand och sten
    sand and stone
  • I en öken finns det mycket sand
    In a desert, there is a lot of sand

Expressions

  • rinna ut i sanden
    come to nothing

Words built with sand

  • grovsand coarse sand
  • sandstrand sandy beach

Questions

What does sand mean in English?

sand means “sand”.

Is it en sand or ett sand?

It is en sand, and “the sand” is sanden.

Origin

From Old Swedish sander, from Old Norse sandr, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz.

Nearby common words

sand is number 2,783 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