sjucker
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Tavringer Romani sjucker, sjycker (“beautiful, pretty”), from Romani śukar (“beautiful, amiable, pleasant”). Related to Sanskrit शुक्र (śukra, “light, white, pure”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sjucker (comparative sjuckrare, superlative sjuckrast)
- (colloquial) beautiful, pretty, fine, good
- 1947, Ruben Nilson (lyrics and music), “Balladen om Eken”:
- Man skulle väl tona en sjucker ballad / om våran stad
- If one should write a pretty ballad / about our city.
Declension edit
| Inflection of sjucker | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | sjucker | sjuckrare | sjuckrast |
| Neuter singular | sjuckert | sjuckrare | sjuckrast |
| Plural | sjuckra | sjuckrare | sjuckrast |
| Masculine plural3 | sjuckre | sjuckrare | sjuckrast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | sjuckre | sjuckrare | sjuckraste |
| All | sjuckra | sjuckrare | sjuckraste |
| 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 | |||
References edit
- sjucker in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- Gerd Carling (2005) “sjucker”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 101