Swedish noun· top 2,000 most common

ett spöke

ghost/²spøːkɛ/

Meaning

ghost

In Swedish: död person som visar sig, vålnad

Forms

Forms of spöke
Singular, indefiniteett spöke
Singular, definitespöket
Plural, indefinitespöken
Plural, definitespökena

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

Practise spöke

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Is it en spöke or ett spöke?

spöke in a sentence

  • Det läskiga spöket skrämmer mig
    The scary ghost scares me
  • Jag blev rädd för det läskiga spöket
    I got scared of the scary ghost
  • Är du rädd för spöken?
    Are you afraid of ghosts?
  • Spöken kan vara mycket skrämmande
    Ghosts can be very frightening
  • Spöken ger mig kalla kårar
    Ghosts send shivers down my spine
  • Jag såg ett spöke i den kusliga skogen
    I saw a ghost in the eerie forest
  • I spökhuset bor det många spöken som säger bu
    In the haunted house, there are [lives] many ghosts who say boo
  • spöken som spökar på slottet
    ghosts that haunt the castle

Words built with spöke

  • kommunistspöket the phantom of Communism
  • spökhistoria ghost story
  • spöklik ghostly, spectral, ghost-like

Questions

What does spöke mean in English?

spöke means “ghost”.

Is it en spöke or ett spöke?

It is ett spöke, and “the ghost” is spöket.

What is the plural of spöke?

The plural of spöke is spöken, and the definite plural is spökena.

Similar words

vålnadandeväsengast

Origin

From Old Danish spøg, from Middle Low German spoek, spôk (“spook, ghost”).

Nearby common words

spöke is number 1,685 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