stycken
Swedish
Alternative forms
- st. (abbreviation)
Noun
stycken
- (plural only) instances, instances of (anything)
- Hon köpte fem (stycken) päron
- She bought five (instances of) pears
- Det kom bara fem (stycken) på mötet
- Only five (instances, of humans, i.e. people) came to the meeting
Usage notes
- Usually strictly redundant.
- Sometimes (often jocularly) used for a single object: "en/ett styck [thing]"
- The form "styckna" also occurs, from treating "stycken" as an adjective in the singular.
See also
Noun
stycken
- indefinite plural of stycke
References
- “styck”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “stycken”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “stycke”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)