sweet

[swi:t] 1. adjective

1) (tasting like sugar; not sour, salty or bitter: as sweet as honey; Children eat too many sweet foods.) sladek

2) (tasting fresh and pleasant: young, sweet vegetables.) svež

3) ((of smells) pleasant or fragrant: the sweet smell of flowers.) prijeten

4) ((of sounds) agreeable or delightful to hear: the sweet song of the nightingale.) mil

5) (attractive or charming: What a sweet little baby!; a sweet face/smile; You look sweet in that dress.) ljubek

6) (kindly and agreeable: She's a sweet girl; The child has a sweet nature.) prijazen

2. noun

1) ((American candy) a small piece of sweet food eg chocolate, toffee etc: a packet of sweets; Have a sweet.) bonbon

2) ((a dish or course of) sweet food near or at the end of a meal; (a) pudding or dessert: The waiter served the sweet.) sladek poobedek

3) (dear; darling: Hallo, my sweet!) ljubček

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- sweeten

- sweetener
- sweetly
- sweetness
- sweetheart
- sweet potato
- sweet-smelling
- sweet-tempered

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1.

adjective (sweetly adverb)

sladek; (mleko, maslo) svež, nepokvarjen; (vonj) prijeten, blag, dišeč; (zvok) melodiozen, skladen, miloglasen, prijeten; (spanje itd.) sladek, osvežilen, krepilen; prijazen, ljubezniv (to do); colloquially mil, dražesten, ljubek, sladek; colloquially gladek, miren, brez truda

at one's own sweet will — po svoji mili volji, po svoji glavi

a sweet one slang krepak udarec

sweet breath — svež, prijeten duh (iz ust)

a sweet tooth figuratively sladkosnednost

a sweet going — gladka vožnja (na dobri cesti)

sweet and twenty — "očarljiva dvajsetletnica"

my sweet one! — moj ljubi!

to be sweet on s.o. colloquially biti zaljubljen v koga, nor za kom

to be sweet with — dišati po

this fish is not quite sweet — ta riba ni čisto sveža

to have a sweet taste — imeti sladek okus

to have a sweet tooth figuratively biti sladkosneden

to keep s.o. sweet — dobro se razumeti (shajati) s kom;

2.

adverb to smell sweet — blago dišati

to taste sweet — imeti sladek okus

II [swi:t]

noun

kar je sladko; sladek okus, sladkost; slaščica, bonbon; sladek poobedek, sladke jedi; sladkano vino; figuratively sladkosti; prijeten vonj, parfum, dišava; prijetnost, slast; ljubi, ljubček, ljubica, dragica

no sweet without sweat — ni jela brez dela

the sweets of power — slast oblasti

the sweets and bitters of life — sladkosti in bridkosti življenja

the flowers diffuse their balmy sweets — cvetlice širijo svoj balzamov vonj

to taste the sweets of success — okusiti slast uspeha