Meaning of bit | Babel Free
/biːt/Exempel
“en pusselbit”
a puzzle piece
“en tårtbit / en bit tårta [note that there is no preposition]”
a piece of cake (not an idiom in Swedish – see lätt som en plätt)
“Jag åt tre bitar McNuggets”
I ate three pieces of McNuggets
“Koppen föll i golvet och gick i tusen bitar”
The cup fell to the floor and broke [went] into a thousand pieces
“torskfilé i bitar”
cod fillet cut into pieces
“Actionhjälten sprängde skurkarna i bitar”
The action hero blew the bad guys to pieces/bits
“Den ligger en bit väster om byn”
It lies a bit west of the village
“Huset ligger en bit längre fram”
The house is a bit further ahead
“Det simmar en svan en bit ut på sjön”
There is a swan swimming a bit out on the lake
“Vi följde med henne en bit på vägen”
We accompanied her part of the way [We followed with her a bit on the way (to where she was going)]
“Det är en bra bit till Säffle”
It's quite a drive to Säffle ["It is a good bit to Säffle" – "bra bit" is a common collocation]
“Ta på dig vandringskängorna. Det är en bit att gå.”
Put on your hiking boots. It's a bit of a walk [a bit (implied long) to walk].
“Vi planerar att skaffa katt en bit längre fram [can also be expressed as "lite längre fram"]”
We're planning to get a cat a bit later on ["further ahead" (longer forth) – still thought of as a distance]
“en svängig bit”
a swinging tune
“ett 64-bitars operativsystem”
a 64-bit [bits'] operating system
CEFR-nivå
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.