UrsprungFrom Old Swedish mororot, moro rot, calque of Middle Low German morwortel (“carrot”), from more + wortel. Cf. German Möhre.
- common-gendercarrot
“knapra på en morot” — nibble on a carrot
“Kaniner gillar morötter” — Rabbits like carrots
“morotsland” — carrot patch
- common-gender, figurativelyincentive
“piska och morot” — carrot and stick [whip] (idiomatic)
Formermorot(indefinite, nominative, singular) · morots(genitive, indefinite, singular) · moroten(definite, nominative, singular) · morotens(definite, genitive, singular) · morötter(indefinite, nominative, plural) · morötters(genitive, indefinite, plural) · morötterna(definite, nominative, plural) · morötternas(definite, genitive, plural)