flört
Swedish
Etymology
Either a back-formation from flörta (“to flirt”), borrowed from English flirt (verb), or directly from English flirt (noun).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈflœ̞ʈ]
- (nonstandard, nonetheless common[2]) IPA(key): [ˈflɵʈ]
Noun
flört c
- A flirt, an act of flirting
- A "flirtee", a person that has been flirted with
- Jag och min nya flört Annika ska ut och äta.
- Me and my new flirtee Annika are going out to eat.
Declension
| Declension of flört | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | flört | flörten | flörtar | flörtarna |
| Genitive | flörts | flörtens | flörtars | flörtarnas |
References
- flört in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Tomas Riad, “Våra vokaler förändras. En del flyter samman, andra glider isär. [Our vowels change. Some blend together, others drift apart.]”, in Språktidningen [The language journal], issue 3, 2013