svår
Pronunciation: /¹svoːr/
“svår” is a Swedish word. Its 10 meanings in English:
adjective
- difficult, hard (requiring significant effort (or luck or the like) to successfully deal with)
- difficult (due to being uncooperative or in a bad mood, for example, or difficult to understand, etc., like in English)
- to struggle (due to finding something (intellectually) difficult)
- to find someone/something difficult to like, to have a problem with someone/something
- severe
- serious
- difficult, hard
- grave
- very (as a positive or negative intensifier)
- keen on (something) (having a strong affinity for something (pleasurable, usually alcohol or women))
Etymology
From Old Swedish svār, svāger, svor, from Old Norse svárr, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-. Compare German schwer.
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