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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)
- 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
- (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
- ^ 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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