flarra
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Derived from flaska (“bottle”) by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare fisk > firre (“fish”) and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flarra c
- (colloquial) a bottle
- Synonym: flaska
- 2015, Thomas Berglund, “Här är årets bästa starkare julöl”, in Svenska Dagbladet[1]:
- Corsendonk kommer i år i en praktfull ”sharing bottle” i stället för en liten flarra om 25 cl.
- This year Corsendonk comes in a magnificent ”sharing bottle” instead of a small bottle of 25 cl.
Declension edit
| Declension of flarra | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | flarra | flarran | flarror | flarrorna |
| Genitive | flarras | flarrans | flarrors | flarrornas |
References edit
- Slangopedia
- Per Ledin (2013 March 28) “Glad pårre igen!”, in På svenska[2] (Blog), archived from the original on 26 September 2020