bakom

See also: bąkom and баком

Hungarian

Etymology

bak +‎ -om (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒkom]
• Hyphenation: ba‧kom

Noun

bakom

1. first-person singular single-possession possessive of bak

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	bakom	—
accusative	bakomat	—
dative	bakomnak	—
instrumental	bakommal	—
causal-final	bakomért	—
translative	bakommá	—
terminative	bakomig	—
essive-formal	bakomként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	bakomban	—
superessive	bakomon	—
adessive	bakomnál	—
illative	bakomba	—
sublative	bakomra	—
allative	bakomhoz	—
elative	bakomból	—
delative	bakomról	—
ablative	bakomtól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	bakomé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	bakoméi	—

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.kɔm/
• Rhymes: -akɔm
• Syllabification: ba‧kom

Noun

bakom m

1. dative plural of bak

Noun

bakom f

1. dative plural of baka

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bakom (Cyrillic spelling баком)

1. instrumental singular of baka

Swedish

Etymology

bak (“back”) +‎ om (“of”)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

bakom (comparative mer bakom, superlative mest bakom)

1. (colloquial) slow (from notion of behind others)

   Synonym: (more common) efter

Adverb

bakom (not comparable)

1. behind

   Antonym: framför

See also

• efter
• kvar

Preposition

bakom

1. behind

   Antonym: framför

   Jag gömde mig bakom ett träd

   I hid behind a tree

   Jag går framför dig, så du går bakom mig

   I'm walking in front of you, so you're walking behind me

   Jag stod bakom Nisse i kön till glassbaren

   I was standing behind Nisse in line at [in the queue to] the ice cream parlor

   Han satt bakom skrivbordet

   He was sitting behind the desk

   "Vid skrivbordet" (at the desk) is more common, like in English.

   Europaparlamentet ställer sig bakom förslaget

   The European Parliament supports the proposal

   (literally, “The European Parliament stands itself behind the proposal [idiomatic – compare "fully behind" and the like]”)

   • 1980, Docent Död, “Solglasögon [Sunglasses]”, in Docent [Docent [associate professor, roughly]]‎^[1]:

     Bakom mina solglasögon kan jag va' [vara] mig själv. Allting blir så vackert genom ... Genom mina solglasögon är ljuset alltid gult. Allting känns så riktigt bakom ...

     Behind my sunglasses, I can be myself. Everything turns so beautiful through ... Through my sunglasses, the light is always yellow. Everything feels so right behind ...

Derived terms

• bakom flötet
• bakom lyckta dörrar
• bakom lås och bom
• ha en räv bakom örat
• ligga bakom
• tappad bakom en vagn

See also

• bak
• efter

References

• “bakom”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “bakom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “bakom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)