fler
- first-personsingularpresentpassivesubjunctive offlō
FromFrenchfleur.
fler
- flower
fler
- comparative degree ofmange (Englishmore) (countable).
fler
- more
Borrowed fromFrenchflair.
fler n (pluralfleruri)
- flair
FromOld Swedishflere,flæster, fromOld Norsefleiri, fromProto-Germanic*flaizô, derived fromProto-Indo-European*pleh₁-(“full, many”). Cognate, among others, withIcelandicfleiri,flestr,Latinplūs andAncient Greekπλέως(pléōs),πλεῖστος(pleîstos).
flerorflera (plural only,superlativeflestorflesta)
- more andmost (in numbers)
De var många, men vi varfler.- They were many, but there weremore of us.
Deflesta kan läsa.- Most [people] can read.
Jag plockadefler äpplen än Anna, men Sven plockadeflest äpplen.- I pickedmore apples than Anna, but Sven pickedeven more apples.
Sven plockade deflesta äpplena, så blev det inte så många kvar till Anna och mig.- Sven pickedmost of the apples [from the tree], so not many were left to Anna and me.
- Many native Swedish speakers would consider this to be a comparative ofmången, månget, många(“many”), which however is a pronoun and not an adjective.
