fördärv

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fordærf.

Noun

fördärv n

  1. (often hyperbolic and abstract, sometimes moral) destruction (or something that causes it)
    Sirenerna lockar sjömän i fördärvet med sin sång
    The sirens lure sailors to destruction with their song (concrete, fairly literary)
    1. ruin, undoing, perdition, etc.
      Kom igen, Nisse. En öl kommer inte leda dig i fördärvet.
      Come on, Nisse. One beer will not lead you to ruin.
      Militärjuntan störtade landet i fördärvet
      The military junta plunged the country into ruin
      Girigheten blev hennes fördärv
      [The/her] greed became her undoing
    2. (higher register, as a personal characteristic or the like) depravity, corruption (state of being ruined, etc.)
    3. (religion) perdition, eternal damnation, hell

Usage notes
  • Often as "leda/störta i fördärvet" (lead/plunge into [the] ruin).
  • Often with various intensifiers, like "leda rakt i (straight into) / ner i (down into) / rakt ner i (straight down into) fördärvet."

Declension
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Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) fördärvet — —
Genitive fördärvs fördärvets — —

References
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