artonhundratal

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • 1800-tal

Etymology

arton + hundratal

Noun

artonhundratal n

  1. (usually in the definite "artonhundratalet") The 1800s (eighteen hundreds), the years 1800 to 1899; almost the same period as nittonde seklet ("nineteenth century") which, however, was from year 1801 to 1900 (although a century in Swedish is used to be counted from a year 100x to a year 100x + 99 rather than from a year 100x + 1 to a year 100y).

Declension

Declension of artonhundratal 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative artonhundratal artonhundratalet
Genitive artonhundratals artonhundratalets

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