No. 8,569 in Swedish

bilfri

Car-free.

In a sentence

Stadens centrum är bilfri.
The city center is car-free.
Used as an adjective to describe the state of the city center being free of cars.
Vi har börjat sträva efter en bilfri livsstil.
We have started to strive for a car-free lifestyle.
Here, 'bilfri' modifies 'livsstil', indicating a lifestyle without the use of cars.
Den nya parken är utformad som ett bilfritt område.
The new park is designed as a car-free area.
'Bilfritt' is used as the neuter form of 'bilfri' since it qualifies 'område', a neuter noun.

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