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fräck

shameless, brazen, insolent, striking

Meaning

shameless; brazen; insolent; striking

In Swedish: oförskämd, skamlös

Forms

Forms of fräck
Basic formfräckwith en-words
Neuterfräcktwith ett-words
Plural and definitefräckaplural nouns, and after den / det / de
Comparativefräckare“-er”, “more …”
Superlativefräckast“-est”, “most …”

Practise fräck

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What does fräck mean?

fräck in a sentence

  • han gick helt fräckt före i kön
    quite brazenly, he jumped the queue
  • en fräck historia
    a dirty story (joke)
  • en fräck klänning
    a striking dress
  • Hon är inte lite fräck som vågar sig hit efter vad hon gjorde
    She's got a lot of nerve coming here ("She is not a little (is very) brazen that dares herself here ...") after what she did
  • Vilken fräck kommentar! Så säger man inte till sin egen mamma!
    What a rude comment! You don't talk like that to your own mother!
  • en fräck bankkupp
    a brazen bank heist
  • Vilken fräck bil!
    What a cool car!
  • – Vi fick pizza som tack. – Fräckt!
    – We got pizza as thanks. – Nice!

Questions

What does fräck mean in English?

fräck means “shameless, brazen”.

Similar words

häftigoförskämdcooldjärvspydigtuff

Origin

From Old Swedish fræker, from Old Norse frekr (“greedy, assertive, pushy”); see also Icelandic frekur, German frech.

Nearby common words

fräck is number 3,247 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Recording: Wikimedia Commons. Browse the dictionary