träff

Träff is a Swedish noun with several related meanings. Most commonly it denotes a meeting or encounter between people, such as a scheduled get-together, a casual encounter, or an opportunity to meet someone. It can also refer to a hit or successful result in sports, games, or target-based activities, for example a hit on a target or a scoring event. In digital and informational contexts, träff appears in phrases describing the number of results or matches, such as the number of träffar in a search.

The word is derived from the verb träffa, meaning to meet or to hit. The noun form is widely used across everyday language and in compound nouns such as bilträff (a car meet), bokträff (a book club event), or flera träffar i en sökning (several hits in a search). The term also appears in fixed expressions describing encounters or opportunities to meet.

Grammatical notes: the indefinite singular is en träff; the plural is träffar, and the definite plural is träffarna. The reflexive verb träffas means “to meet each other.” In compound terms and in statistical contexts, träffar is often used to indicate occurrences or matches, for example träffar i sökresultat or antal träffar.

See also: social meeting, encounter, dating, search results, hit.