skär

See also: skar, skår, and skær

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɧæːr/
  • Rhymes: -æːr
  • audio (non-standard ⟨sk⟩)(file)

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish skær, from Old Norse skærr (“pure, bright, clear”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *skairiz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱēy- (“luster, gloss, shadow”). Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hirrë (“whey, serum”).

Adjective
en skär damsko
a pink women's shoe

skär (comparative skärare, superlative skärast)

  1. pink; having a color between red and white, sometimes with a hint of beige, as in the skin color of white people.
  2. (dated) pure, clean
Declension
Inflection of skär
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular skär skärare skärast
Neuter singular skärt skärare skärast
Plural skära skärare skärast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 skäre skärare skäraste
All skära skärare skäraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
Synonyms
  • (pink): rosa (never with a beige hue)
See also

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sker. Cognate to English skerry, Irish sceir, Scottish Gaelic sgeir, Danish skær, Norwegian Bokmål skjær, Norwegian Nynorsk skjer, Icelandic sker and Faroese sker.

Noun

skär n

  1. a skerry, an island (especially a small rocky island)
Declension
Declension of skär 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative skär skäret skär skären
Genitive skärs skärets skärs skärens
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 3

Verb

skär

  1. present tense of skära.
  2. imperative of skära.
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