No. 469 in Swedish
små
"Små" means "small" or "little" in English.
In a sentence
De små hundarna leker i trädgården.
The small dogs are playing in the garden.
Here, 'små' is used as an adjective to describe the plural noun 'hundarna', meaning 'dogs', indicating that the dogs are small in size.
Vi såg några små fåglar i skogen.
We saw some small birds in the forest.
In this sentence, 'små' describes 'fåglar', which is the plural of 'bird', highlighting the diminutive size of the birds we observed.
Barnen hade små idéer om vad de kunde göra.
The children had small ideas about what they could do.
'Små' is used here to describe 'idéer', emphasizing that the ideas the children had were minor or not extensive in scope.
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