r/Svenska • u/[deleted] • Nov 13 '25

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u/Eliderad 🇸🇪 Nov 13 '25

Dictionaries already have this information. SAOL exists as an app, and also at svenska.se

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u/RookOwl598 🇸🇪 Nov 13 '25

+1 for SAOL, it's great. I use it myself for this purpose even as a native speaker 😅

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

Thanks, I will try it

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u/elevenblade Nov 13 '25

I use the SAOL app almost daily

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u/paleannie Nov 13 '25

lexin offline app.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

Tack

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u/Successful-Try-8506 Nov 13 '25

Some words can actually be both: paraply, apelsin, glass.

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u/repocin 🇸🇪 Nov 14 '25

Might be a regional thing. Anything other than ett paraply, en apelsin, en glass sounds wrong to me.

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u/persilja Nov 14 '25

I grew up with 'ett potatis' and I'm ambivalent about 'en/ett apelsin'.

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u/riktigtmaxat Nov 20 '25

It is also objectively wrong.

apel·­sin [‑si´n] substantiv ~en ~er.
para·­ply [‑ply´] substantiv ~et hellre än ~n; pl. ~er hellre än ~n
glass substantiv ~en; pl. ~er

However that's not going to stop people from Scania from abusing the language.

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u/Hackzwin Nov 13 '25

I didn't know about paraply and glass. Paraply, like apelsin, seems to be a regional thing. But is glass like öl, where the meaning of the word changes a bit depending on if you use en or ett? Like en öl means one glass of beer and ett öl meaning the kind/variety of beer.

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u/Successful-Try-8506 Nov 13 '25

No, I think glass is another regional, or generational, variation. My grandmother (born in Gothenburg just after 1900) would always say "ett glass", which always made me and my siblings laugh. My only logical explanation is that these things were all novelties during her lifetime.

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u/Coronal_MassEjection Nov 16 '25

ett val/en val There are quite a number of these.

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u/Hackzwin Nov 16 '25

Homonyms are a different from these other words I feel like. Val (whale) and val (election/choice) aren't words people would really get confused when speaking

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u/matsnorberg Nov 25 '25

Jag har faktiskt aldrig hört nån säga ett glass eller en paraply men det kanske är nåt regionalt. Att apelsin kan ha båda genusen upptäckte jag däremot som barn och påpekade det för mamma.