No. 1,240 in Swedish
larmade
"Alarmed" or "raised an alarm."
In a sentence
Brandmannen larmade om en skogsbrand.
The firefighter alerted about a forest fire.
In this sentence, 'larmade' is used in the past tense to indicate that the firefighter raised an alert or warning about a forest fire.
Han larmade polisen när han såg rånet.
He alerted the police when he witnessed the robbery.
Here, 'larmade' denotes the action of informing or calling the authorities regarding an incident, showing its function as communicating an alarm.
Ett övervakat system larmade när temperaturen blev för hög.
A monitored system alerted when the temperature became too high.
In this instance, 'larmade' represents the automatic action taken by a system to raise an alarm or notify due to an extraordinary condition.
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