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Meaning of skvatten | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

gerund of skvatte

form-of, gerund

Examples

“2016, Katja Kettu (Translated by Birgita Bonde Hansen), Natsværmeren, Art People →ISBN Der drypper ikke længere savl ned på den gråternede flonelskjorte, og hans skvatten og ståen i stampe fra før er udskiftet med en målrettet tøffen ned ad saunastien.”

Saliva no longer drips down upon the gray-checkered shirt of a cotton-based fabric, and his falling and stagnating of before is replaced by a determined, slow walking down the sauna-path.

“2016, Jane Austen (Translator unknown), Fornuft og følelse, Lindhardt og Ringhof →ISBN Jeg kan fortælle Dem, miss Dashwood, at han desuden selv har et kønt, lille gods i Somersetshire, og hvis jeg var Dem, ville jeg ikke afgive ham til min lillesøster trods al denne skvatten ned ad bakker.”

I can tell you, miss Dashwood, that he additionally has himself a pretty little estate in Somersetshire, and if I was you [formal], I would not surrender him to my little sister in spite of all this falling down hills.

“Ungerne hujede af grin, og klovnede rundt, i en ikke ueffen parodi på de to marsboeres skrækslagne kluntethed: Jonathans skvatten omkuld, Larrys fumlende klynken!”

The kids whooped with laughter, clowning around in a not helpless parody of the terrified awkwardness of the two Martians: Jonathan's falling down, Larry's fumbling whining!

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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