Swedish adverb· top 100 most common
hur
how/hʉːr/
Meaning
how
In Swedish: på vilket sätt?; i vilken utsträckning?
Practise hur
1 / 1What does hur mean?
hur in a sentence
- Hur dags?When?
- Hur mycket kostar det?How much is it?
- Hur sa?What?
- Hur mår du?How are you?
- Hur är det bra för oss?How is that good for us?
Expressions
- eller hurisn't that so? ("isn't it? doesn't he?", etc.)
Questions
What does hur mean in English?
hur means “how”.
Where the course teaches it
- Basic Swedish greetings and farewellsComplete Swedish – Season 1
- Swedish question words: vad and hurComplete Swedish – Season 1
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Origin
Shortened form of huru, from Old Swedish hwaru, from neuter dative of Proto-Germanic *hwar
Nearby common words
hur is number 43 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