flört

Swedish

Etymology

Either a back-formation from flörta (“to flirt”), borrowed from English flirt (verb), or directly from English flirt (noun).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈflœ̞ʈ]
  • (nonstandard, nonetheless common[2]) IPA(key): [ˈflɵʈ]


Noun

flört c

  1. A flirt, an act of flirting
  2. A "flirtee", a person that has been flirted with
    Jag och min nya flört Annika ska ut och äta.
    Me and my new flirtee Annika are going out to eat.

Declension
Declension of flört 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative flört flörten flörtar flörtarna
Genitive flörts flörtens flörtars flörtarnas

References
  1. flört in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  2. Tomas Riad, “Våra vokaler förändras. En del flyter samman, andra glider isär. [Our vowels change. Some blend together, others drift apart.]”, in Språktidningen [The language journal]‎, issue 3, 2013
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