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Meaning of vald | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
valt

Definitions

  1. power, authority
    also, in-plural, neuter
  2. authority, power
    neuter
  3. force, violence
    neuter
  4. a cause
    in-plural, neuter
  5. Equivalent to 'power': A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up.

Equivalents

English power

Examples

“Timothy 2:11-12 (English, Icelandic)”

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

“Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)”

I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

“Með valdi.”

With force.

“Hún dó af þínum völdum.”

She died because of you.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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