fräck
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Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse frekr (“greedy, assertive, pushy”); see also Icelandic frekur, German frech.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]fräck (comparative fräckare, superlative fräckast)
- brazen, shameless
- 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
- 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
[edit]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
[edit]| Inflection of fräck | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | fräck | fräckare | fräckast |
| Neuter singular | fräckt | fräckare | fräckast |
| Plural | fräcka | fräckare | fräckast |
| Masculine plural3 | fräcke | fräckare | fräckast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | fräcke | fräckare | fräckaste |
| All | fräcka | fräckare | fräckaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||