Meaning of dess | Babel Free

Definitioner

1. its (3rd person singular inanimate common and neuter genitive)
   possessive
2. obsolete typography of dess (“its”)
   alt-of, obsolete
3. At a specific given time, then
4. obsolete typography of dess (“at a specific time”)
   alt-of, obsolete
5. synonym of desto

Exempel

“Sen dess har de rivit stället”

Since then, they've torn the place down

“Till dess får du ha det så bra”

Until then, have a good time

“Denna har man welat giöra mer lämpelig til wår Nation och deß seder; Huru det har lyckatz, kan den Benägna Läsaren bäst dömma.”

This one has been intended to be made more suitable for our nation and its customs; how it has succeeded, the benevolent reader can best judge.

“[…]; machinen är lättſkött och deß ſnabbhet kan utan ſwårighet ökas eller minſkas.”

[…] ; the machine is easy to use and its speed can be increased or decreased without difficulty.

“[…] och då skall J få bli qwar i Stockholm, til deß måßan wäxer på Er, för Juncker Torbiörn.”

[…] and then You will stay in Stockholm, until moss grows on you, for Juncker Torbiörn.

“Som min Moder ännu war ung, wacker, rik och af ypperlig härkomst, ändades knapt Enko-året förr, än friare sig infunno; men kärleken hon hade haft för min Far, och den ömhet hon bar för min Syster och mig, såsom käre panter af deß Mans åminnelse, woro för kraftige skäl i hennes sinne för at lyßna på friare-språken.”

As my Mother was yet young, fair, wealthy, and of noble descent, scarce had the widow's year ended ere suitors presented themselves; but the love she had borne my Father, and the tenderness she felt for my Sister and me, as dear pledges of her Husband's memory, were too powerful reasons in her mind to hearken to the suitors' addresses.

“Oͤfwerſf. och Ridd. Cocks ſkrift; – Capit. Bergenſtråles d:o med bif. Bouptekning efter deß afl. Fru C. M. Kanterberg, (Not. Collin): på Rådm. Lomells beſw.”

Colonel and Knight Cock's writing; – Captain Bergenstråle's same with the attached inventory after his deceased wife, Mrs. C. M. Kanterberg, (Notary Collin): on Councilman Lomell's complaint.

“För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettio mil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg.”

In order to be able to access such, indeed quite polite but hardly interest bearing hug, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked purse, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirty miles distant from their birthplace, Gothenburg.

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