tjorre

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from kiosk by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare flaska > flarra (“bottle”) and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɕɔrɛ/

Noun

tjorre c

1. (colloquial) kiosk

   Synonym: kiosk

Declension

Declension of tjorre

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tjorre	tjorres
	definite	tjorren	tjorrens
plural	indefinite	tjorrar	tjorrars
	definite	tjorrarna	tjorrarnas

References

• Per Ledin (2013 March 28) “Glad pårre igen!”, in På svenska‎^[1] (Blog), archived from the original on 26 September 2020