blöt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "blot"

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish blø̄ter, from Old Norse blautr (“wet”), bleyta, from Proto-Germanic *blautaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlaw-.

Adjective

blöt (comparative blötare, superlative blötast)

  1. wet (covered with or impregnated with liquid)
    Jag blev blöt när det regnade
    I got wet when it rained
  2. (of weather) wet
    kallt och blött väder
    cold and wet weather
  3. (of a social gathering or the like) including large amounts of alcohol
    en blöt fest
    a drunken/boozy party
    (literally, “a wet party”)
  4. (obsolete outside certain expressions) soft
    blötdjur ― mollusc (literally, “soft animal”)
  5. (colloquial, less common) soft; overly sensitive
    Near-synonym: blödig
    En får inte vara blöt
    One mustn't be soft
    From a well-known sketch.

Declension

Inflection of blöt
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular blöt blötare blötast
neuter singular blött blötare blötast
plural blöta blötare blötast
masculine plural2 blöte blötare blötast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 blöte blötare blötaste
all blöta blötare blötaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

See also

Verb

blöt

  1. imperative of blöta

References

Volapük

Noun

blöt (genitive blöta, plural blöts)

  1. breast

Declension

Declension of blöt
singular plural
nominative blöt blöts
genitive blöta blötas
dative blöte blötes
accusative blöti blötis
vocative 1 o blöt! o blöts!
predicative 2 blötu blötus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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