Noun: allvar
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | allvar |
| Sg. Def. | allvaret |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | allvars |
| Sg. Def. | allvarets |
Sample Sentences
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Menar du allvar? (Are you being serious?)
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Hon menar allvar (She's being serious)
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Du kan inte mena allvar (You can't be serious)
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Nu är det allvar! (It's serious now!)
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Det här är allvar! (This is serious business!)
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Det är på allvar (It's serious, it's for real)
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Det rådde inget tvivel om allvaret i hennes fråga (There was no doubt that her question was serious (no doubt of the seriousness of her question))
Nouns inflected like allvar
sexliv,
sattyg,
schtek,
viltkött,
sorbat,
ultraljud,
fläskkött,
skakvåld,
alkoholmissbruk,
grannskap,
beskydd,
rasförräderi,
sommarsolstånd,
futurum,
fastland,
ögonmått,
ögongrus,
arbetsliv,
tuggmotstånd,
griskött, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse alvara, from an adjective ǫlværr (“benevolent”), maybe from Middle Low German alwār (“true, kind, benevolent”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
alvara'.
Verbs referencing "allvar"
Icelandic Nouns
alvara.
Translations