No. 2,033 in Swedish

varg

Wolf.

In a sentence

Vargen ylar i natten.
The wolf howls in the night.
In this sentence, 'varg' refers to the animal known as a wolf.
Han ropade på vargen men ingen kom.
He cried 'wolf,' but no one came.
Here, 'varg' is metaphorical, referring to a false alarm or deceit based on the idiom 'cry wolf'.
Jag såg en varg i skogen igår.
I saw a wolf in the forest yesterday.
In this sentence, 'varg' is used in a literal sense to describe seeing the animal wolf.

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