Swedish noun· top 2,000 most common

en fars

farce

Meaning

farce

In Swedish: lustspel, gyckelspel

Forms

Forms of fars
Singular, indefiniteen fars
Singular, definitefarsen
Plural, indefinitefarser
Plural, definitefarserna

fars is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor fars, den stora farsen. Check another noun

Practise fars

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Is it en fars or ett fars?

Words built with fars

  • farsartad farcical

Questions

What does fars mean in English?

fars means “farce”.

Is it en fars or ett fars?

It is en fars, and “the farce” is farsen.

What is the plural of fars?

The plural of fars is farser, and the definite plural is farserna.

Origin

From French farce, attested from 1755.

Nearby common words

fars is number 1,678 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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