eller hur
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Swedish eller hur.
Phrase edit
- (humorous) or what?
- 2016, Karl Aage Rasmussen, Kan man høre tiden: Essays om musik og mennesker, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Senere søgte Stalintiden omhyggeligt at slette alle spor efter disse eksperimentatorer, de blev helt bogstaveligt taget ud af historien (og så kan den vel ikke gentage sig, eller hur?).
- Later, the Stalin age meticulously attempted to erase all traces of these experimentators, they were quite literally removed from history (and then surely it cannot repeat itself, or can it?).
- 2010, Niels Lillelund, Bibendum, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Pengene er gode nok, selv om de er små. Eller hur? sagde han.
- The money is good enough, although few. Or what? he said.
- 2014, Per Sørensen, Meninger om mangt og meget: artikler og essays, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 96:
- Men det er naturligvis alment erkendt inden for højskolebevægelsen, eller hur?, som de siger i Sverige.
- But of course, that is generally acknowledged within the højskole movement, or is it?, as they say in Sweden.
Swedish edit
Phrase edit
- right; tag question used when the speaker expects agreement.
- Han är korkad, eller hur?
- He is stupid, isn't he?
Usage notes edit
Swedish does not construct tag questions after the context, but uses a fixed expression such as "eller hur?" or "inte sant?" in all contexts. See also väl.
See also edit
Interjection edit
eller hur!
- (colloquial) Used to indicate agreement.