förra

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See also: forra and forrá

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fyrre, from Old Norse fyrri, from Proto-Germanic *furizô, comparative of Proto-Germanic *furi, *furai.

Pronunciation

Adjective

förra (masculine förre)

  1. former, last, previous (the one in a sequence before the present)
    Den bilen ser inte något vidare ut, låt oss titta på den förra igen istället
    That car doesn't look very nice, let us instead have a look at the last one again
    förra året
    last year
  2. (archaic) first
    Det förra kapitlet
    The first chapter

Usage notes

  • Just like English last, this adjective can only be used in attributive, definite form (det förra året = the last year), not in indefinite (ett förrt år = a last year) or predicative form (året var förrt = the year was last). For such cases, either use föregående (“preceding”) or forn (“old”), or rewrite to definite form (e.g. året var det förra = the year was the last one).

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References

  1. ^ Tomas Riad (2013) “Våra vokaler förändras. En del flyter samman, andra glider isär. [Our vowels change. Some blend together, others drift apart.]”, in Språktidningen [The language journal]‎, number 3

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