käck

See also: kack

Swedish

FWOTD – 18 April 2019

Etymology

From German keck (“spirited, cheeky, lively”). Doublet of kvick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕɛkː/
• Homophones: check, tjeck (in accents that don't differentiate between short e and ä)

Adjective

käck (comparative käckare, superlative käckast)

1. bright, lively, keen, plucky
   • 2016, Nils Edvard Hammarstedt, translation of Tacitus' Germania, Ch. 13:

     Stor är ock tävlan såväl mellan följesmännen om närmaste platsen hos hövdingen som mellan hövdingarna om de flesta och käckaste följesmännen

     Great is also the competition amid followers for the closest place next to the chieftain, and the same goes amid the chieftains regarding who shall have the most and keenest followers

Declension

Inflection of käck

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	käck	käckare	käckast
neuter singular	käckt	käckare	käckast
plural	käcka	käckare	käckast
masculine plural2	käcke	käckare	käckast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	käcke	käckare	käckaste
all	käcka	käckare	käckaste

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.

Further reading

• käck in Svensk ordbok.