Bländar

Bländar is a Swedish verb form meaning to cause someone to be temporarily unable to see due to very bright light, i.e., to dazzle or blind momentarily. The action can be literal, such as glare from sun, headlights, or flash, or figurative, describing something overwhelming or astonishing. In use, it is typically active transitive: someone bländar someone else or something bländar a viewer.

The word is most commonly encountered in contexts involving light and visibility. For example, "Solen bländar mig när jag tittar rakt upp" (The sun blinds me when I look directly at it) or "Fårens strålkastare bländade bilisterna." In ophthalmology and road safety discussions, bländning is a related noun used to refer to glare that impairs vision. The related noun bländare exists in photography and optics as the term for the lens aperture, a different concept from the verb sense, though both derive from a root linked to brightness and visibility.

Morphology and usage notes: blända is the infinitive, bländar the present tense, bländade the past tense, and bländat the supine/past participle. The participle bländande is used as a participle describing something dazzling (e.g., ett bländande ljus).

See also: bländning (glare or dazzling), bländare (aperture in photography). Bländar is primarily a general verb for the act of causing temporary visual impairment due to bright light, across everyday language and safety-related contexts.