bäck

See also: back, Back, and back-

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bækker, from Old Norse bekkr, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog-. Compare English beck

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Homophones: Beck, beck

Noun

bäck c

1. a small stream or brook

Declension

Declension of bäck
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bäck	bäcken	bäckar	bäckarna
Genitive	bäcks	bäckens	bäckars	bäckarnas

Derived terms

• bäckahästen
• många bäckar små
• många bäckar små gör en stor å
• stämma i bäcken

See also

• dike
• kanal

• å
• ström
• älv
• flod

• fors
• vattenfall

Further reading

• bäck in Svensk ordbok.