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Latin
Verb
fler
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of flō
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French fleur.
Pronunciation
Noun
fler
- flower
Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Adjective
fler
- comparative degree of mange (English more) (countable).
Pronoun
fler
- more
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French flair.
Noun
fler n (plural fleruri)
- flair
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish flere, flæster, from Old Norse fleiri, from Proto-Germanic *flaizô, derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“full, many”). Cognate, among others, with Icelandic fleiri, flestr, Latin plūs and Ancient Greek πλέως (pléōs), πλεῖστος (pleîstos).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fler or flera (plural only, superlative flest or flesta)
- more and most (in numbers)
De var många, men vi var fler.- They were many, but there were more of us.
De flesta kan läsa.- Most can read.
Jag plockade fler äpplen än Anna, men Sven plockade flest äpplen.- I picked more apples than Anna, but Sven picked even more apples.
Sven plockade de flesta äpplena, så blev det inte så många kvar till Anna och mig.- Sven picked most of the apples , so not many were left to Anna and me.
Usage notes
- Many native Swedish speakers would consider this to be a comparative of mången, månget, många (“many”), which however is a pronoun and not an adjective.
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