See vafan on Wiktionary
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[
"vad fan",
"vad fan#Swedish"
],
[
"va",
"va#Swedish"
],
[
"vad",
"vad#Swedish"
],
[
"fan",
"fan#Swedish"
]
],
"etymology_text": "Contraction of vad fan, with va being a reduced form of vad (“what”), and fan being a curse word originally meaning the Devil.",
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"2": "interjection"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "intj",
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"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
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},
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"english": "What the fuck are you doing?",
"text": "Vafan göru?",
"translation": "What the fuck are you doing?",
"type": "example"
},
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],
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],
"english": "I asked what the fuck it was but he didn't answer.",
"text": "Jag fråga vafan d va men han svara nt.",
"translation": "I asked what the fuck it was but he didn't answer.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"what the hell, what the fuck"
],
"id": "en-vafan-sv-intj-pQ~uJ2V7",
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],
[
"what the hell",
"what the hell"
],
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"what the fuck"
]
],
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"(colloquial, text messaging, Internet slang) what the hell, what the fuck"
],
"related": [
{
"word": "vad fan"
}
],
"tags": [
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"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/väˈfäːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/vɑˈfɑːn/"
}
],
"word": "vafan"
}
{
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[
"vad fan",
"vad fan#Swedish"
],
[
"va",
"va#Swedish"
],
[
"vad",
"vad#Swedish"
],
[
"fan",
"fan#Swedish"
]
],
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"2": "interjection"
},
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{
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"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
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"Swedish internet slang",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish terms with usage examples",
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"english": "I asked what the fuck it was but he didn't answer.",
"text": "Jag fråga vafan d va men han svara nt.",
"translation": "I asked what the fuck it was but he didn't answer.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"what the hell, what the fuck"
],
"links": [
[
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],
[
"Internet",
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],
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"what the hell",
"what the hell"
],
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"what the fuck",
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, text messaging, Internet slang) what the hell, what the fuck"
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/väˈfäːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/vɑˈfɑːn/"
}
],
"word": "vafan"
}
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