vacker

See also: väcker

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse vakr (“wakeful, watchful; brave”), from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake”). Cognate with Dutch wakker, Danish and Norwegian vakker, among others.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvak.kɛr/, [ˈvacːɛ̠r]

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Adjective

vacker (comparative vackrare, superlative vackrast)

1. beautiful
   • 1995, Peter Grönvall, Maria Rådsten, Nanne Grönvall (lyrics and music), “Det vackraste [The most beautiful thing ["thing" from being nominalized]]”‎^[1]performed by Cecilia Vennersten:

     Det vackraste jag vet, är att se dig när du sover. Här råder stilla frid, och jag glömmer både rum och tid. Du ligger här bredvid, och jag känner hur du andas. Att älskas utav dig, är det vackraste för mig.

     The most beautiful thing I know, is to watch [see] you when you sleep. Here is quiet peace, and I forget both space and time. You lie here next to me, and I can feel you breathing. To be loved by you, is the most beautiful thing to me.

2. pretty, handsome (of an amount or the like)

Declension

Inflection of vacker

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	vacker	vackrare	vackrast
neuter singular	vackert	vackrare	vackrast
plural	vackra	vackrare	vackrast
masculine plural2	vackre	vackrare	vackrast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	vackre	vackrare	vackraste
all	vackra	vackrare	vackraste

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.

Derived terms

• vacker som en dag

See also

• skön (“fair”)
• snygg (“good-looking”)

References

• vacker in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vacker in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• vackre, veckar