vandel
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Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Low German wandel. Cognate of German Wandel. Related to the verb vandla, now obsolete except for as the second part of förvandla and omvandla.
Noun
[edit]vandel c
- lifestyle, way of life (from a moral standpoint), (when sounding better as a translation) conduct
- bristande vandel
- lack of good moral character ["deficient conduct" – often in political discourse on immigration, now sometimes used tongue in cheek as a formal-sounding term]
- god vandel
- good moral character
- vandelsprövning
- moral character review / suitability review
Declension
[edit]Declension of vandel
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | vandel | vandels |
| definite | vandeln | vandelns | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- vandel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- vandel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- vandel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- vandel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)