Swedish noun

ett stoft

powder, dust/stɔft/

Meaning

powder; dust

In Swedish: damm, pulver

Forms

Forms of stoft
Singular, indefiniteett stoft
Singular, definitestoftet

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

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Is it en stoft or ett stoft?

stoft in a sentence

  • stoftet av den döde följdes till graven av en stor människomassa
    a large crowd followed the remains of the deceased to the grave

Questions

What does stoft mean in English?

stoft means “powder, dust”.

Is it en stoft or ett stoft?

It is ett stoft, and “the powder” is stoftet.

Similar words

pulver

Origin

From Middle Low German stȫven, from Old Saxon *stiovan, from Proto-West Germanic *staubijan.

Nearby common words

stoft is number 7,724 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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