Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en värme

warmth, heating

Meaning

warmth; heating

In Swedish: hög temperatur; hetta

Forms

Forms of värme
Singular, indefinite	en värme
Singular, definite	värmen

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

Practise värme

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Is it en värme or ett värme?

värme in a sentence

solens värme
the heat of the sun
mänsklig värme
human warmth
sätta på värmen
put the heating on

Words built with värme

fjärrvärme district heating
centralvärme central heating
värmepanna boiler, furnace

Questions

What does värme mean in English?

värme means “warmth, heating”.

Is it en värme or ett värme?

It is en värme, and “the warmth” is värmen.

Origin

Cognate with Icelandic varmi.

Nearby common words

värme is number 2,805 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,801läskig horrible, awful
2,802bakgrund ground (background, context, framework, surroundings), background, origins; one's social heritage
2,803feg cowardly
2,804jodå sure, of course
2,806akt act, ceremony
2,807ordnad in good order
2,808aska knock the ash off
2,809underligt strangely, oddly

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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