Noun
en brist
a shortage
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Meaning
en brist is the Swedish word for a shortage — a noun you meet early when building Swedish vocabulary. Learn it in context with the example below, hear the pronunciation, then lock it into memory by playing it in the free LearnSwedishFast arcade game.
Example
Vi väntar i en timme.
We wait for an hour.
Short, natural learner sentences—meant for memory, not dictionary citations.
Word forms
Common inflected forms of en brist you will see while reading Swedish.
- brist
- bristar
- bristarna
- bristen
- brister
- bristerna