allasammans

Swedish

Pronoun

allasammans - also allasamman, allesamman, allesammans

1. everybody, all of us/you/them (alla + samman)

   vackra unga män allasammans, ryttare som red på hästar.

   all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. (Ezekiel 23:6)

   Väktarna här är allasammans blinda, de har inget förstånd; de är allasammans stumma hundar, som icke kunna skälla;

   His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark (Isaiah 56:10)

Usage notes

• All four forms are entirely synonymous; allesammans is the most commonly used today, but allasammans is the form used (all 132 times) in the Swedish Bible translation of 1917.