sjucker
Swedish
Alternative forms
- schucker
Etymology
From Tavringer Romani sjucker, sjycker (“beautiful, pretty”), from Romani śukar (“beautiful, amiable, pleasant”). Related to Sanskrit शुक्र (śukra, “light, white, pure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɧɵkɛr/
- Rhymes: -ɵkɛr
Adjective
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
| 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
- sjucker in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- Gerd Carling (2005) “sjucker”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 101
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