vrak

vrak m inan

1. wreck
2. shipwreck

   vrak lodě. ― Shipwreck.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

vrak n (definite singular vraket, indefinite plural vrak, definite plural vraka or vrakene)

1. a wreck
2. a shipwreck

• skipsvrak
• vrakgods

vrak

1. imperative of vrake

• IPA^(key): /ʋrɑːk/

vrak n (definite singular vraket, indefinite plural vrak, definite plural vraka)

1. a wreck
2. something which is discarded, rejected
3. (idiomatic) a wretch

vrak

1. (predicative) wretched

• “vrak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• krav, kvar

vrak

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of vreka

From Middle Dutch and Middle Low German wrak, probably from Old Saxon *wrak, derived from wrekan. Compare English wrack, German Wrack and Danish vrag.

vrak n

2. the remains of something damaged or worn down to the point of being ruined; a wreck (e.g. a shipwreck)

   Synonym: (shipwreck) skeppsvrak

3. someone who's in a very bad state physically or mentally; a wreck
4. a vehicle (often a car) in a very bad (but somewhat functional) state

(sense 1) would be understood as a shipwreck in most contexts.

• förlisa (“suffer a shipwreck”)
• skeppsbrott (“a shipwreck event”)

• vrak in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• vrak in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• vrak in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)

• krav, kvar