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skär

skär

See also: skar, skår, and skær

Swedish

Adjective

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/attributive 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 an attributive role.

Synonyms

  • rosa (never with the "beige" hue)

See also

pure
  • ren och skär
  • skir

Noun

skär n

  1. skerry, an island (especially a small rocky island)

Declension

Inflection of skär 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative skär skäret skär skären
Genitive skärs skärets skärs skärens

Related terms

Verb

skär

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