Swedish pronoun · interjection· top 5,000 most common

vars

whose/vars/

vars as a pronoun

Meaning

whose

In Swedish: vilkens, vilkas

vars as an interjection

Meaning

Added to an answering interjection (mainly jo) to make it more emphatic.

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What does vars mean?

vars in a sentence

  • en person vars omdöme jag litar på
    a person whose judgement I trust

Questions

What does vars mean in English?

vars means “whose”.

Origin

Clipping of bevars, itself a contraction of (Gud) bevare oss (”may God save us”), from the present subjunctive of bevara (“to save, to keep”), and oss (“us”).

Nearby common words

vars is number 2,032 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