uppesittarkväll

Swedish

Etymology

uppe (“up”) +‎ sitta (“sit”) +‎ kväll (“evening”)

Noun

uppesittarkväll c

  1. an evening where one stays up late doing a certain thing (usually with family)
    1. December 23 (to prepare for Christmas, celebrated on December 24)
    2. (usually, in contemporary Swedish) a television or radio event broadcast on December 23 and running into the evening; a pre-Christmas special

Usage notes

Often specifically of the Bingolotto pre-Christmas special.

Declension

Declension of uppesittarkväll
nominative genitive
singular indefinite uppesittarkväll uppesittarkvälls
definite uppesittarkvällen uppesittarkvällens
plural indefinite uppesittarkvällar uppesittarkvällars
definite uppesittarkvällarna uppesittarkvällarnas

References

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