Swedish adverb · adjective· top 2,000 most common

sönder

into a broken or destroyed state

sönder as an adverb

Meaning

into a broken or destroyed state

sönder as an adjective

Meaning

broken

In Swedish: i trasigt skick

Practise sönder

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What does sönder mean?

sönder in a sentence

  • Motorn gick sönder
    The engine broke
  • Hon hade sönder datorn genom att köra fel kommando
    She broke the computer by running the wrong command
  • Hon slog sönder datorn
    She smashed the computer
  • Hon rev sönder kontraktet
    She ripped up the contract
  • Hon sparkade sönder lampan
    She kicked out the light
  • bilen är sönder
    the car has broken down
  • gå sönder
    break
  • Datorn är sönder. Den startar inte.
    The computer is broken. It won't start.

Words built with sönder

  • sönderfall disintegration, decomposition
  • sönderslagen battered, broken, knocked about

Questions

What does sönder mean in English?

sönder means “into a broken or destroyed state”.

Similar words

trasighaveri

Origin

From Old Swedish sundr, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz, from Proto-Indo-European *sn̥Hter-.

Nearby common words

sönder is number 1,035 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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