Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

ett stryk

thrashing, beatingAlso the imperative of stryka./stryːk/

Meaning

thrashing; beating

In Swedish: kroppslig bestraffning

Forms

Forms of stryk
Singular, indefinite	ett stryk
Singular, definite	stryket

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

Practise stryk

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stryk in a sentence

Sverige fick stryk i landskampen mot Finland
Sweden took a beating in the match against Finland
Ge någon stryk
Beat someone
Bortalaget åkte på stryk
The away team lost the match (they were in for a beating)

Questions

What does stryk mean in English?

stryk means “thrashing, beating”.

Is it en stryk or ett stryk?

It is ett stryk, and “the thrashing” is stryket.

Similar words

dängpiskspö

Origin

Deverbal from stryka.

Nearby common words

stryk is number 2,044 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,040snarare if anything, rather
2,041sno wind, twist
2,042söta sweeten
2,043konto account
2,045krona heads, krona
2,046byn Rinkeby
2,047for went, travelled
2,048tidig early

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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