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Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Superlative attributive of värre, the superlative predicative is värst. The positive dålig has a suppletive inflection.
Adjective
värsta
- attributive superlative degree of dålig
Etymology 2
From the superlative form above where the meaning most bad or most poor has gotten an opposite meaning. A similar analogy can be seen in grym which originally means "cruel" but has gotten a meaning of "awesome" or "cool" instead. Interestingly enough the same has happened with cruel in English which also can mean "awesome" or "cool", colloquially.
Adjective
värsta (not comparable)
- (colloquial) An intensifier.
Du tror att du är värsta playern va, men det är du inte!- You think you're a freaking player huh, but you're not!
Asså, hon har typ blivit värsta TikTok-kändisen.- I mean, she's kinda become a fricking TikTok celebrity.
Usage notes
"Someone/something /verb/ värsta /noun in the definite form/" is the way that phrases are constructed using this word.
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