Swedish adverb· top 1,000 most common
vadå
what, what?
Meaning
what; what?
Practise vadå
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vadå in a sentence
- – Gör det där! – Gör vadå?– Do that! – Do what?
Questions
What does vadå mean in English?
vadå means “what, what?”.
Origin
Contraction of vad då.
Nearby common words
vadå is number 525 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.
- 521kärlek love
- 522dam lady, madam
- 523dålig bad, poor
- 524skull sake
- 526jack jack, plug
- 527stan town, alternative form of staden (“the city, the town”) (See the usage notes below for when "stan" is idiomatic. All usage examples below are idiomatic except the last.)
- 528ansikte face
- 529jaså really?, you don't say
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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary

