fräck

See also: frack and Frack

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse frekr (“greedy, assertive, pushy”); see also Icelandic frekur, German frech.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

fräck (comparative fräckare, superlative fräckast)

brazen, shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious
Hon är inte lite fräck som vågar sig hit efter vad hon gjorde
She's got a lot of nerve coming here ("She is not a little (is very) brazen that dares herself here ...") after what she did
1. rude
  Vilken fräck kommentar! Så säger man inte till sin egen mamma!
  What a rude comment! You don't talk like that to your own mother!
cheeky, brazen, bold (of for example a robbery carried out in broad daylight)
en fräck bankkupp
a brazen bank heist
(slang) cool, nice
Vilken fräck bil!
What a cool car!

– Vi fick pizza som tack. – Fräckt!
– We got pizza as thanks. – Nice!

Usage notes

Can be thought of as having the basic meaning brazen (bold and shameless), sometimes weakened to cheeky and by extension cool (think rebelliously – compare how rude might have been used as ad-hoc slang in English). Now often somewhat tongue in cheek dated in the cool sense.

Declension

Inflection of **fräck**
Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative¹
common singular	fräck	fräckare	fräckast
neuter singular	fräckt	fräckare	fräckast
plural	fräcka	fräckare	fräckast
masculine plural²	fräcke	fräckare	fräckast

Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular³	fräcke	fräckare	fräckaste
all	fräcka	fräckare	fräckaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Related terms

fräckhet

References