Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

ett skräp

trash, junk, rubbish, litter

Meaning

trash; junk; rubbish; litter

In Swedish: värdelösa kasserade saker, avfall

Forms

Forms of skräp
Singular, indefinite	ett skräp
Singular, definite	skräpet

skräp is an ett-word, so adjectives agree with it: ett stort skräp, det stora skräpet. Check another noun

Practise skräp

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Is it en skräp or ett skräp?

skräp in a sentence

Jag har fått nåt skräp i ögat
I've got something in my eye

Questions

What does skräp mean in English?

skräp means “trash, junk”.

Is it en skräp or ett skräp?

It is ett skräp, and “the trash” is skräpet.

Similar words

bråteavfallsoporstruntavskräde

Nearby common words

skräp is number 2,353 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,349moster [maternal] aunt
2,350ingå be included in, form a part of
2,351tok idiot, fool
2,352gränsa abut, border (on)
2,354ledning management, pipe
2,355löst solved
2,356dock yet, nevertheless, still; however
2,357utomjording an alien, an extraterrestrial

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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