Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en tok

idiot, fool/tuːk/

Meaning

idiot; fool

Forms

Forms of tok
Singular, indefinite	en tok
Singular, definite	token
Plural, indefinite	tokar
Plural, definite	tokarna

tok is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor tok, den stora token. Check another noun

Practise tok

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Is it en tok or ett tok?

tok in a sentence

köra som en tok
drive like a fool/madman

Expressions

gå på tok
go wrong

Questions

What does tok mean in English?

tok means “idiot, fool”.

Is it en tok or ett tok?

It is en tok, and “the idiot” is token.

What is the plural of tok?

The plural of tok is tokar, and the definite plural is tokarna.

Similar words

knasdumbomstolledåre

Origin

Dialectal, perhaps of imitative origin.

Nearby common words

tok is number 2,351 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,347hugga hew, chop
2,348vetenskap science
2,349moster [maternal] aunt
2,350ingå be included in, form a part of
2,352gränsa abut, border (on)
2,353skräp trash, junk
2,354ledning management, pipe
2,355löst solved

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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