förskola

Swedish

Etymology

From för- ("pre-", "before") + skola ("school") .

Noun

förskola c

  1. (Sweden) preschool/nursery school (educational institution for children, usually aged 1 to 6, who not yet have begun primary school, or grundskola in Swedish)
    Synonyms: (official in Finland, no longer official in Sweden) dagvård, daghem, (slang for "daghem") dagis, (slang for "lekskola") lekis, (informal, mostly used in Finland; calque of German Kindergarten) barnträdgård
  2. (Finland) (since August 2015 compulsory) educational institution for children (usually between 6 and 7 years old) the last year before beginning primary school; equivalent to förskoleklass in Sweden (which, however, as opposed to Finland's förskola or esikoulu in Finnish, is part of the primary school as "grade 0")

Declension

Declension of förskola
nominative genitive
singular indefinite förskola förskolas
definite förskolan förskolans
plural indefinite förskolor förskolors
definite förskolorna förskolornas

Derived terms

  • förskolebarn
  • förskoleelev
  • förskoleklass
  • förskollärare
  • förskolepedagogik

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