skoter

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Noun

skoter c

  1. a snowmobile
    Synonym: snöskoter
    I Norrland tycker många om att åka skoter
    In Norrland, many people enjoy driving snowmobiles
  2. a motor scooter (small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame)
    Synonyms: scooter, (genericized trademark) vespa
  3. a water scooter (jet ski)
    Synonym: vattenskoter
  4. a mobility scooter
    Synonyms: permobil, elskoter

Usage notes

  • Particularly during winter, an unqualified skoter would commonly be understood as a snowmobile.
  • Elskoter might also be encountered as a synonym for a motorized scooter (elsparkcykel).

Declension

Declension of skoter
nominative genitive
singular indefinite skoter skoters
definite skotern skoterns
plural indefinite skotrar skotrars
definite skotrarna skotrarnas

Derived terms

References

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