vara

(historical, measure) vara, a Spanish rod, ell, or yard, a traditional unit of length

Inherited from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish vara.


vara

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 83.7 cm.

(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 1.1 m.

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of area, equivalent to about 0.7 m².

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese vara (“rod”), from Latin vāra (“fork”).


vara

property, estate, goods; things belonging to a person or organisation

vara (genitive)
vara (partitive)
vara (nominative singular)
varad (nominative plural)
vara (accusative nominative singular)
varad (accusative nominative plural)
vara (accusative genitive singular)
varad (accusative genitive plural)
vara (genitive singular)
varade (genitive plural)
vara (partitive singular)
varasid (partitive plural)
varra (illative singular)
varasse (illative singular)
varadesse (illative plural)
varas (inessive singular)
varades (inessive plural)
varast (elative singular)
varadest (elative plural)
varale (allative singular)
varadele (allative plural)
varal (adessive singular)
varadel (adessive plural)
varalt (ablative singular)
varadelt (ablative plural)
varaks (singular translative)
varadeks (plural translative)
varani (singular terminative)
varadeni (plural terminative)
varana (essive singular)
varadena (essive plural)
varata (abessive singular)
varadeta (abessive plural)
varaga (comitative singular)
varadega (comitative plural)

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *vara, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *warō, compare Swedish vara, German Ware, English ware. Cognate to Finnish vara and Livonian varā.


vara

Derived from Proto-Finnic *varas, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *vāras, compare Lithuanian voras (“old”). Cognate to Finnish varhain.


vara

head

vara (third person singular past indicative vardi, third person plural past indicative vart, supine vart)

vardi (indicative past singular third-person)
vart (indicative past plural third-person)
vart (supine)
vara (infinitive)
vart (supine)
vari (first-person present singular)
vardi (first-person past singular)
varir (present second-person singular)
vardi (past second-person singular)
varir (present singular third-person)
vardi (past singular third-person)
vara (plural present)
vardu (past plural)
varandi (participle present)
vardur (participle past)
var! (imperative singular)
varið! (imperative plural)


vara

coconut heart or coconut apple, i.e. spongy cotyledon from a sprouting coconut

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic *paraq from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *para (compare with Ilocano pára).


vara

Mäyrä tarvitsee paksun rasvakerroksen talven varaksi.

A badger needs a thick layer of fat as a reserve for winter.

Minulla on ylimääräinen tulppa varalla.

reserve, backup (that which is reserved or kept back, as for future use)

Irakilla on suuret öljyvarat.

(in the plural) (natural) resources, (natural) reserves

(in the plural) stores, stocks, reserves

Minulla ei ole tähän varaa.

I can't afford this. (literally, “I don't have the funds for this.”)

(usually in the plural) funds, means, assets, savings

Muista jättää kutistumisen varaa.

Remember to leave an allowance for shrinking.

Minulla ei ole varaa autoon.

Meillä ei ole varaa virheisiin.

(usually in the singular) room, margin; allowance

Pidä varasi, ettet putoa.

Ei vara venettä kaada. (proverb)

(mostly in idioms and proverbs) caution, concern, care; often translated into English with an adjective (see also pitää varansa)

(woodworking) a tool for cutting long grooves into (the bottoms of) logs for fitting, or for drafting where the grooves will be cut

vara (nominative singular)
varat (nominative plural)
vara (accusative nominative singular)
varat (accusative nominative plural)
varan (accusative genitive singular)
varat (accusative genitive plural)
varan (genitive singular)
varojen (genitive plural)
varain (genitive plural rare)
varaa (partitive singular)
varoja (partitive plural)
varassa (inessive singular)
varoissa (inessive plural)
varasta (elative singular)
varoista (elative plural)
varaan (illative singular)
varoihin (illative plural)
varalla (adessive singular)
varoilla (adessive plural)
varalta (ablative singular)
varoilta (ablative plural)
varalle (allative singular)
varoille (allative plural)
varana (essive singular)
varoina (essive plural)
varaksi (singular translative)
varoiksi (plural translative)
varatta (abessive singular)
varoitta (abessive plural)
varoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
varani (nominative singular)
varani (nominative plural)
varani (accusative nominative singular)
varani (accusative nominative plural)
varani (accusative genitive singular)
varani (accusative genitive plural)
varani (genitive singular)
varojeni (genitive plural)
varaini (genitive plural rare)
varaani (partitive singular)
varojani (partitive plural)
varassani (inessive singular)
varoissani (inessive plural)
varastani (elative singular)
varoistani (elative plural)
varaani (illative singular)
varoihini (illative plural)
varallani (adessive singular)
varoillani (adessive plural)
varaltani (ablative singular)
varoiltani (ablative plural)
varalleni (allative singular)
varoilleni (allative plural)
varanani (essive singular)
varoinani (essive plural)
varakseni (singular translative)
varoikseni (plural translative)
varattani (abessive singular)
varoittani (abessive plural)
varoineni (comitative plural)
varasi (nominative singular)
varasi (nominative plural)
varasi (accusative nominative singular)
varasi (accusative nominative plural)
varasi (accusative genitive singular)
varasi (accusative genitive plural)
varasi (genitive singular)
varojesi (genitive plural)
varaisi (genitive plural rare)
varaasi (partitive singular)
varojasi (partitive plural)
varassasi (inessive singular)
varoissasi (inessive plural)
varastasi (elative singular)
varoistasi (elative plural)
varaasi (illative singular)
varoihisi (illative plural)
varallasi (adessive singular)
varoillasi (adessive plural)
varaltasi (ablative singular)
varoiltasi (ablative plural)
varallesi (allative singular)
varoillesi (allative plural)
varanasi (essive singular)
varoinasi (essive plural)
varaksesi (singular translative)
varoiksesi (plural translative)
varattasi (abessive singular)
varoittasi (abessive plural)
varoinesi (comitative plural)
varamme (nominative singular)
varamme (nominative plural)
varamme (accusative nominative singular)
varamme (accusative nominative plural)
varamme (accusative genitive singular)
varamme (accusative genitive plural)
varamme (genitive singular)
varojemme (genitive plural)
varaimme (genitive plural rare)
varaamme (partitive singular)
varojamme (partitive plural)
varassamme (inessive singular)
varoissamme (inessive plural)
varastamme (elative singular)
varoistamme (elative plural)
varaamme (illative singular)
varoihimme (illative plural)
varallamme (adessive singular)
varoillamme (adessive plural)
varaltamme (ablative singular)
varoiltamme (ablative plural)
varallemme (allative singular)
varoillemme (allative plural)
varanamme (essive singular)
varoinamme (essive plural)
varaksemme (singular translative)
varoiksemme (plural translative)
varattamme (abessive singular)
varoittamme (abessive plural)
varoinemme (comitative plural)
varanne (nominative singular)
varanne (nominative plural)
varanne (accusative nominative singular)
varanne (accusative nominative plural)
varanne (accusative genitive singular)
varanne (accusative genitive plural)
varanne (genitive singular)
varojenne (genitive plural)
varainne (genitive plural rare)
varaanne (partitive singular)
varojanne (partitive plural)
varassanne (inessive singular)
varoissanne (inessive plural)
varastanne (elative singular)
varoistanne (elative plural)
varaanne (illative singular)
varoihinne (illative plural)
varallanne (adessive singular)
varoillanne (adessive plural)
varaltanne (ablative singular)
varoiltanne (ablative plural)
varallenne (allative singular)
varoillenne (allative plural)
varananne (essive singular)
varoinanne (essive plural)
varaksenne (singular translative)
varoiksenne (plural translative)
varattanne (abessive singular)
varoittanne (abessive plural)
varoinenne (comitative plural)
varansa (nominative singular)
varansa (nominative plural)
varansa (accusative nominative singular)
varansa (accusative nominative plural)
varansa (accusative genitive singular)
varansa (accusative genitive plural)
varansa (genitive singular)
varojensa (genitive plural)
varainsa (genitive plural rare)
varaansa (partitive singular)
varojaan (partitive plural)
varojansa (partitive plural)
varassaan (inessive singular)
varassansa (inessive singular)
varoissaan (inessive plural)
varoissansa (inessive plural)
varastaan (elative singular)
varastansa (elative singular)
varoistaan (elative plural)
varoistansa (elative plural)
varaansa (illative singular)
varoihinsa (illative plural)
varallaan (adessive singular)
varallansa (adessive singular)
varoillaan (adessive plural)
varoillansa (adessive plural)
varaltaan (ablative singular)
varaltansa (ablative singular)
varoiltaan (ablative plural)
varoiltansa (ablative plural)
varalleen (allative singular)
varallensa (allative singular)
varoilleen (allative plural)
varoillensa (allative plural)
varanaan (essive singular)
varanansa (essive singular)
varoinaan (essive plural)
varoinansa (essive plural)
varakseen (singular translative)
varaksensa (singular translative)
varoikseen (plural translative)
varoiksensa (plural translative)
varattaan (abessive singular)
varattansa (abessive singular)
varoittaan (abessive plural)
varoittansa (abessive plural)
varoineen (comitative plural)
varoinensa (comitative plural)

kaiken varalta

just in case, just to make sure, to be on the safe side

pitää varansa

to watch out, watch one's step, be on one's guard, keep one's eyes open

From Proto-Finnic *vara (compare Estonian vara), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *warō (compare Swedish vara (“goods”), vara (“care”), English ware (“aware”), aware, ware (“goods”)).


vara

que den a uos Eluira Perez en uossa vida de tres en tres annos çinquo varas de valacyna noua ou os dineiros para ella, quantos ella custar enna tenda

1335, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 463:

they should give you, Elvira Pérez, throughout your life each three years, five yards of new Valencian cloth or the money for them, whatever it costs in the store

(historical, measure) vara, especially as a cloth yard, a former unit of length

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vara (“rod”) attested in the 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria, from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish vara.


vara

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of varar:
second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


vara

(in the plural form) goods, wares, freight, commodities, merchandise

is-noun

vara f (genitive singular vöru, nominative plural vörur)

vöru (genitive singular)
vörur (nominative plural)
vara (indefinite nominative singular)
varan (definite nominative singular)
vörur (indefinite nominative plural)
vörurnar (definite nominative plural)
vöru (accusative indefinite singular)
vöruna (accusative definite singular)
vörur (accusative indefinite plural)
vörurnar (accusative definite plural)
vöru (dative indefinite singular)
vörunni (dative definite singular)
vörum (dative indefinite plural)
vörunum (dative definite plural)
vöru (genitive indefinite singular)
vörunnar (definite genitive singular)
vara (genitive indefinite plural)
varanna (definite genitive plural)

alþjóðasamningur um viðskipti með mjólkurvörur

brauðvörur

bakery products, bread products, baker's wares

rekstrarvörur

consumables, supplies, production supplies

rekstrarvörur til nota við geislagreiningar

rekstrarvörur til nota við sjúkdómsgreiningar

snyrtivörur

cosmetics, toiletry, toilet preparations, cosmetic articles

steypuvörur úr hita- og þrýstihertri frauðsteypu

vísindanefnd um neysluvörur

Scientific Committee on Consumer Products

Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products intended for Consumers

vísindanefnd um snyrtivörur og aðrar neytendavörur en matvæli

vörur sem framleiddar eru til eigin neyslu


vara

head

vara (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative varaði, supine varað)

varaði (indicative past singular third-person)
varað (supine)
að vara (infinitive)
varað (supine)
varandi (participle present)
ég vara (indicative participle present)
við vörum (indicative present)
ég vari (present subjunctive)
við vörum (present subjunctive)
þú varar (indicative participle present)
þið varið (indicative present)
þú varir (present subjunctive)
þið varið (present subjunctive)
hann (indicative participle present)
hún (indicative participle present)
það varar (indicative participle present)
þeir (indicative present)
þær (indicative present)
þau vara (indicative present)
hann (present subjunctive)
hún (present subjunctive)
það vari (present subjunctive)
þeir (present subjunctive)
þær (present subjunctive)
þau vari (present subjunctive)
ég varaði (indicative participle past present)
við vöruðum (indicative past)
ég varaði (past subjunctive)
við vöruðum (past subjunctive)
þú varaðir (indicative participle past present)
þið vöruðuð (indicative past)
þú varaðir (past subjunctive)
þið vöruðuð (past subjunctive)
hann (indicative participle past present)
hún (indicative participle past present)
það varaði (indicative participle past present)
þeir (indicative past)
þær (indicative past)
þau vöruðu (indicative past)
hann (past subjunctive)
hún (past subjunctive)
það varaði (past subjunctive)
þeir (past subjunctive)
þær (past subjunctive)
þau vöruðu (past subjunctive)
vara (þú) (indicative participle past present)
varið (þið) (indicative past)
varaðu (indicative participle past present pronoun-included)
variði (indicative past pronoun-included)
að varast (infinitive)
varast (supine)
varandist (participle present)
it is never used attributively (participle present)
predicatively (participle present)
only for explicatory subclauses (participle present)
ég varast (indicative participle present)
við vörumst (indicative present)
ég varist (present subjunctive)
við vörumst (present subjunctive)
þú varast (indicative participle present)
þið varist (indicative present)
þú varist (present subjunctive)
þið varist (present subjunctive)
hann (indicative participle present)
hún (indicative participle present)
það varast (indicative participle present)
þeir (indicative present)
þær (indicative present)
þau varast (indicative present)
hann (present subjunctive)
hún (present subjunctive)
það varist (present subjunctive)
þeir (present subjunctive)
þær (present subjunctive)
þau varist (present subjunctive)
ég varaðist (indicative participle past present)
við vöruðumst (indicative past)
ég varaðist (past subjunctive)
við vöruðumst (past subjunctive)
þú varaðist (indicative participle past present)
þið vöruðust (indicative past)
þú varaðist (past subjunctive)
þið vöruðust (past subjunctive)
hann (indicative participle past present)
hún (indicative participle past present)
það varaðist (indicative participle past present)
þeir (indicative past)
þær (indicative past)
þau vöruðust (indicative past)
hann (past subjunctive)
hún (past subjunctive)
það varaðist (past subjunctive)
þeir (past subjunctive)
þær (past subjunctive)
þau vöruðust (past subjunctive)
varast (þú) (indicative participle past present)
varist (þið) (indicative past)
varastu (indicative participle past present pronoun-included)
varisti (indicative past pronoun-included)
varaður (masculine nominative singular)
vöruð (feminine nominative singular)
varað (neuter nominative singular)
varaðir (masculine nominative plural)
varaðar (feminine nominative plural)
vöruð (neuter nominative plural)
varaðan (accusative masculine singular)
varaða (accusative feminine singular)
varað (accusative neuter singular)
varaða (accusative masculine plural)
varaðar (accusative feminine plural)
vöruð (accusative neuter plural)
vöruðum (dative masculine singular)
varaðri (dative feminine singular)
vöruðu (dative neuter singular)
vöruðum (dative masculine plural)
vöruðum (dative feminine plural)
vöruðum (dative neuter plural)
varaðs (genitive masculine singular)
varaðrar (feminine genitive singular)
varaðs (genitive neuter singular)
varaðra (genitive masculine plural)
varaðra (feminine genitive plural)
varaðra (genitive neuter plural)
varaði (masculine nominative singular)
varaða (feminine nominative singular)
varaða (neuter nominative singular)
vöruðu (masculine nominative plural)
vöruðu (feminine nominative plural)
vöruðu (neuter nominative plural)
varaða (accusative masculine singular)
vöruðu (accusative feminine singular)
varaða (accusative neuter singular)
vöruðu (accusative masculine plural)
vöruðu (accusative feminine plural)
vöruðu (accusative neuter plural)
varaða (dative masculine singular)
vöruðu (dative feminine singular)
varaða (dative neuter singular)
vöruðu (dative masculine plural)
vöruðu (dative feminine plural)
vöruðu (dative neuter plural)
varaða (genitive masculine singular)
vöruðu (feminine genitive singular)
varaða (genitive neuter singular)
vöruðu (genitive masculine plural)
vöruðu (feminine genitive plural)
vöruðu (genitive neuter plural)

Inherited from Old Norse vara, from Proto-Germanic *warōną.


vara

Hvað varir þetta lengi?

(intransitive) to last, to continue, to go on

(intransitive) to last, to endure, to be permanent

vara (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative varði, supine varað)

varði (indicative past singular third-person)
varað (supine)

Borrowed from Middle Low German waren (whence also Swedish vara, Norwegian vare, Danish vare), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀōn.


vara

Og fyrr en mig varði
hver strákur á mig starði

1990, the song Það sést ekki sætari mey ("None sweeter than me can be seen") from the album Gling-Gló by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar (Lyrics)

Before I would know it
every boy would stare at me
the way girls do at forget-me-nots

Gestirnir komu fyrr en mig varði.

The guests arrived earlier than expected.


vara

vara (nominative singular)
varat (nominative plural)
varan (genitive singular)
varroin (genitive plural)
varraa (partitive singular)
varoja (partitive plural)
varraa (illative singular)
varroi (illative plural)
varas (inessive singular)
varois (inessive plural)
varast (elative singular)
varoist (elative plural)
varalle (allative singular)
varoille (allative plural)
varal (adessive singular)
varoil (adessive plural)
varalt (ablative singular)
varoilt (ablative plural)
varaks (singular translative)
varoiks (plural translative)
varanna (essive singular)
varraan (essive singular)
varoinna (essive plural)
varroin (essive plural)
varant (exessive singular)
varoint (exessive plural)

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *vara, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *waraz. Cognates include Finnish vara and Estonian vara.


vara

inflection of varare:
second-person singular imperative


vara

vara (infinitive)
varann (participle present)
varanes (participle present)
verið (supine)
er (indicative present)
var (indicative past)
veri (present subjunctive)
vóre (past subjunctive)
var (imperative second-person singular)
varum (first-person imperative plural)
varin (imperative plural second-person)
varan (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old Norse vera (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *wesaną; see there for further details.


vara

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *vara, borrowed from Germanic.


vara

(diminutive form, typography) The rafe lines in the shape of crossbars that can be used in Ladino orthography as diacritics on Hebrew script to alter the sound of letters to create new letters; a breve diacritic (˘) is placed on top of letters to form fricative consonant sounds, such as changing פ (/p/) into פﬞ (/f/); usually referred to by the diminutive varika (“little crossbar”).

lad-noun

vara f (Hebrew spelling ב׳ארה, plural varas)

Inherited from Old Spanish vara, from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese vara.


vara

third-person singular present indicative of varar

second-person singular imperative of varar


vara

la-noun

vāra f (genitive vārae); first declension

vāra (canonical feminine)
vārae (genitive)
vāra (nominative singular)
vārae (nominative plural)
vārae (genitive singular)
vārārum (genitive plural)
vārae (dative singular)
vārīs (dative plural)
vāram (accusative singular)
vārās (accusative plural)
vārā (ablative singular)
vārīs (ablative plural)
vāra (singular vocative)
vārae (plural vocative)

Catalan: vara

Galician: vara

Mirandese: bara

Portuguese: vara

Spanish: vara

From the feminine of the adjective vārus, vāra, vārum (“bent in; knock-kneed; different”).


vara

inflection of vārus:
nominative/vocative feminine singular


vara

vara (nominative singular)
varas (nominative plural)
varas (genitive singular)
varu (genitive plural)
varai (dative singular)
varām (dative plural)
varu (accusative singular)
varas (accusative plural)
varu (instrumental singular)
varām (instrumental plural)
varā (locative singular)
varās (locative plural)
vara (singular vocative)
varas (plural vocative)


vara

varaen (definite singular)
varaer (indefinite plural)
varaar (indefinite plural)
varaene (definite plural)
varaane (definite plural)


vara

varar (present)
varer (present)
vara (past)
varte (past)
vara (participle past)
vart (participle past)
varast (infinitive passive)
varande (participle present)
vara (imperative)
var (imperative)


vara

varar (present)
vara (past)
vara (participle past)
varast (infinitive passive)
varande (participle present)
vara (imperative)
var (imperative)


vara

Nå kunde det vara det samma med alt.

1949, Alf Prøysen, Dørstokken heme [The Doorstep at Home], Høvik, page 20:

(dialectal, nonstandard) alternative form of vera


vara

(measure) vara, a Portuguese rod, yard or ell, a traditional unit of length

Inherited from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Old Spanish vara.


vara

(measure) vara, a Spanish rod, ell, or yard, a traditional unit of length

Ladino: vana, ב׳ארה

Spanish: vana

Inherited from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese vara.


vara

vara (infinitive present)
væra (infinitive present)
vara (participle present)
varin (participle past)
æm (first-person indicative present singular)
ær (first-person indicative present singular)
sē (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sēi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sī (first-person present singular subjunctive)
æri (first-person present singular subjunctive)
væri (first-person present singular subjunctive)
var (first-person indicative past singular)
uas (first-person indicative past singular)
vāre (first-person past singular subjunctive)
æst (indicative present second-person singular)
sē (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sēi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sī (present second-person singular subjunctive)
æri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
væri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
æ (imperative present second-person singular)
vart (indicative past second-person singular)
uast (indicative past second-person singular)
vāre (past second-person singular subjunctive)
ær (indicative present singular third-person)
sē (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sēi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sī (present singular subjunctive third-person)
æri (present singular subjunctive third-person)
væri (present singular subjunctive third-person)
var (indicative past singular third-person)
uas (indicative past singular third-person)
vāre (past singular subjunctive third-person)
ærum (first-person indicative plural present)
sēin (first-person plural present subjunctive)
varin (first-person plural present subjunctive)
værin (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ærum (first-person imperative plural present)
vārom (first-person indicative past plural)
vāre (first-person past plural subjunctive)
ærin (indicative plural present second-person)
sēn (plural present second-person subjunctive)
vari (plural present second-person subjunctive)
værin (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ærin (imperative plural present second-person)
vārin (indicative past plural second-person)
vāre (past plural second-person subjunctive)
æru (indicative plural present third-person)
æra (indicative plural present third-person)
aru (indicative plural present third-person)
sē (plural present subjunctive third-person)
vāro (indicative past plural third-person)
vāre (past plural subjunctive third-person)
væra (alternative)
væræ (alternative)

Swedish: vara

Inherited from Old Norse vera, earlier vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. Cognate with Danish være, Icelandic vera.


vara

varo (nominative singular)
varā (nominative plural)
varaṃ (accusative singular)
vare (accusative plural)
varena (instrumental singular)
varehi (instrumental plural)
varebhi (instrumental plural)
varassa (dative singular)
varāya (dative singular)
varatthaṃ (dative singular)
varānaṃ (dative plural)
varasmā (ablative singular)
varamhā (ablative singular)
varā (ablative singular)
varehi (ablative plural)
varebhi (ablative plural)
varassa (genitive singular)
varānaṃ (genitive plural)
varasmiṃ (locative singular)
varamhi (locative singular)
vare (locative singular)
varesu (locative plural)
vara (singular vocative)
varā (plural vocative)
varā (nominative singular)
varāyo (nominative plural)
varā (nominative plural)
varaṃ (accusative singular)
varāyo (accusative plural)
varā (accusative plural)
varāya (instrumental singular)
varāhi (instrumental plural)
varābhi (instrumental plural)
varāya (dative singular)
varānaṃ (dative plural)
varāya (ablative singular)
varāhi (ablative plural)
varābhi (ablative plural)
varāya (genitive singular)
varānaṃ (genitive plural)
varāya (locative singular)
varāyaṃ (locative singular)
varāsu (locative plural)
vare (singular vocative)
varāyo (plural vocative)
varā (plural vocative)
varaṃ (nominative singular)
varāni (nominative plural)
varaṃ (accusative singular)
varāni (accusative plural)
varena (instrumental singular)
varehi (instrumental plural)
varebhi (instrumental plural)
varassa (dative singular)
varāya (dative singular)
varatthaṃ (dative singular)
varānaṃ (dative plural)
varasmā (ablative singular)
varamhā (ablative singular)
varā (ablative singular)
varehi (ablative plural)
varebhi (ablative plural)
varassa (genitive singular)
varānaṃ (genitive plural)
varasmiṃ (locative singular)
varamhi (locative singular)
vare (locative singular)
varesu (locative plural)
vara (singular vocative)
varāni (plural vocative)


vara

second-person singular imperative active of varati (“to desire”)


vara

Extracted from varati, vareti and vāreti.


vara

(historical, measure) vara, a Portuguese rod, yard or ell, a former unit of length about equal to 1.1 m

(historical, measure) square vara, a former unit of area about equal to 1.2 m²

a district court, an original court, a trial court or court of first instance

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vara (“rod”), from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Catalan, Galician, and Spanish vara.


vara

vara (nominative singular)
varat (nominative plural)
varan (accusative singular)
varat (accusative plural)
varan (genitive singular)
varadën (genitive plural)
varoidën (genitive plural)
varada (partitive singular)
varoida (partitive plural)
varassa (inessive singular)
varahna (inessive singular)
varoissa (inessive plural)
varoihna (inessive plural)
varasta (elative singular)
varoista (elative plural)
varahën (illative singular)
varoihën (illative plural)
varalla (adessive singular)
varoilla (adessive plural)
varalta (ablative singular)
varoilta (ablative plural)
varalën (allative singular)
varalëk (allative singular)
varoilën (allative plural)
varoilëk (allative plural)
varana (essive singular)
varoina (essive plural)
varaksi (singular translative)
varoiksi (plural translative)
varan (instructive singular)
varoin (instructive plural)
varanëk (comitative singular)
varoinëk (comitative plural)
varatta (abessive singular)
varoitta (abessive plural)

Estonian: vara

Finnish: vara

Ingrian: vara

Karelian:

North Karelian: vara

South Karelian: vara

Livonian: varā

Livvi: vara

Ludian: vara

Veps: vara

Võro: vara

Votic: vara


vara

definite nominative/accusative singular of vară


vara

(by extension, religious folklore) ferculum

Of Germanic origin, borrowed from Lombardic *bāra (“stretcher, bier”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”) and Italian barella.


vara

(historical, measure) vara, a Spanish rod or yard (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 83.7 cm)

(historical, measure) vara, a square vara (a traditional unit of area equivalent to about 0.7 m²)

yardstick (a straight-edge tool for measuring length)

La inusual celeridad con la que la Corte Suprema de Justicia abordó el caso de los jueces Leopoldo Bruglia, Pablo Bertuzi y Germán Castelli expuso la doble vara con la que el Tribunal Supremo toma o deja los expedientes que le llegan.

2020 October 4, Franco Mizrahi, “La doble vara de la Corte Suprema de Justicia: los casos sensibles que posterga el máximo tribunal”, in El Destape:

(figurative) yardstick (a standard used to establish a baseline for measurements or comparisons)


vara

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of varar:
second-person singular imperative


vara

Var har du varit?

to be
to occupy a place, to be (somewhere)

Det var fest igår

Att vara eller icke vara, det är frågan:
Månn’ ädlare att lida och fördraga
Ett bittert ödes styng och pilar eller
Att ta till vapen mot ett haf af qval
To be or not to be– that is the question:

c. 1847, Carl August Hagberg, translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (c. 1601), act 3, scene 1

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

Att vara eller inte vara, det är frågan

To be or not to be, that is the question

Bruce Wayne är Batman

(copulative) Indicates that the subject and object are the same.

ett plus ett är två

(copulative, mathematics) Indicates that the values on either side of an equation are the same.

Han blev president 2007

He became president in 2007 [same in Swedish as in English]

Jag är islänning

Jag är iranier
I am Iranian [[an] Iranian]

Jag är tysk

Jag är amerikan

Jag är britt

Hon är läkare

Är hon bagare?

Han var soldat

Han har varit löjtnant

Hon är lagkapten

Han är frimurare
He is a Freemason

Han är filmfantast

Hon har blivit mamma

Vem är far till barnen?

Vem är storasyster och vem är lillasyster?

Who is the big sister and who is the little sister?

att vara människa

Hon är läkare, soldat och mamma på samma gång

She is a doctor, a soldier, and a mother at the same time

Hon är en skicklig läkare

She is a skilled doctor ["Skilled doctor" is not considered a "role," so an article (en) appears in this example, like in English]

(copulative) Indicates that the subject plays the role of or belongs to the group represented by the predicate nominal. This is idiomatically applied more broadly compared to English, as the examples below show. Including an article or making the noun definite – like in English – is not ungrammatical and does not change the meaning of the examples – it is only unidiomatic (and often intuitively redundant to native speakers, for example for giving a count of one (en/ett) to a role, similar to how "became a president" sounds to English speakers).

Såsen är krämig

1917 translation, the Bible, Deuteronomy (Femte Mosebok), 1:26

Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.

Men I villen icke draga ditupp, utan voren gensträviga mot Herrens, eder Guds, befallning.

(copulative) Connects a noun to an adjective that describes it.

Rummet städas

The room is cleaned (is being cleaned right now (or, alternatively, is cleaned from time to time, as opposed to never being cleaned))

Rummet är städat

The room is clean ("is cleaned" in the sense of "has been cleaned")

Rummet städas en gång i veckan

Rummet är städat en gång i veckan

The room is clean once a week (an unusual thing to say in Swedish as well)

Huset målades förra veckan, så det var målat när jag gick förbi det för en timme sen

The house was painted last week, so it was painted (had painted walls) when I walked past it an hour ago

Vi räddades av en räddningshelikopter

We were rescued by a rescue helicopter (a rescue helicopter came and rescued us)

Vi var räddade
We had been rescued ("We were rescued" in the sense of "We had (the property of having) been rescued" as opposed to "Someone came and rescued us" – "We were rescued" is used to express both in English, but Swedish separates them)

Pojken räddades av hunden

Pojken var räddad av hunden
The boy had the property of having been saved by the dog (had at some earlier time been saved by the dog – odd-sounding in Swedish too)

Pojken hade räddats av hunden
The boy had been saved by the dog (for comparison – idiomatic-sounding)

Bilen körs

The car is driven (right now (or from time to time))

Bilen är körd

The car is driven (has been driven (in some context), has more than zero kilometers on the odometer (if talking generally))

Forms a passive voice that indicates a state or a completed action. The examples below show comparisons against -s, which also forms the passive voice. The examples are kept basic for the sake of illustration and do not always represent the most idiomatic way to say things in either Swedish or English.

Jag är uppstigen sedan en timme

(archaic) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs.

Used to indicate things like age, height, temperature, weather, ...

head

vara (present är, preterite var, supine varit, imperative var)

är (present)
var (preterite)
varit (supine)
var (imperative)
vara (active infinitive)
varit (active supine)
var (active imperative)
varen (active archaic)
är (active indicative present)
var (active indicative past)
äro (active archaic present)
voro (active archaic past)
vare (active dated present subjunctive)
vore (active dated past subjunctive)
varande (active participle past present)
va (alternative)

Inherited from Old Swedish vara, væra from Old Norse vera, earlier vesa, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. Cognate with Danish være, Icelandic vera, Norwegian være.


vara

Varats olidliga lätthet

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984 novel by Milan Kundera)

vara (indefinite nominative singular)
varas (genitive indefinite singular)
varat (definite nominative singular)
varats (definite genitive singular)


vara

Mötet varade flera timmar.

Mjölken varar längre i kylskåpet.

The milk will last longer in the fridge.

vara (present varar, preterite varade, supine varat, imperative vara)

varar (present)
varade (preterite)
varat (supine)
vara (imperative)
vara (active infinitive)
varat (active supine)
vara (active imperative)
varen (active archaic)
varar (active indicative present)
varade (active indicative past)
vara (active archaic present)
varade (active archaic past)
vare (active dated present subjunctive)
varade (active dated past subjunctive)
varande (active participle past present)

Inherited from Old Swedish vara, from Middle Low German waren, from Old Saxon waron, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Danish vare.


vara

ta vara på

take care of, keep, not throw away, not waste

ta sig till vara

Inherited from Old Swedish vara, from Old Norse vari, cognate with Danish vare, possibly from an unattested Old Swedish *vari (“care”), related to Icelandic vari (“caution, carefullness”), but influenced by Middle Low German ware namen, related to German wahren, wahrnehmen.


vara

att lägga en vara i varukorgen

to put an item in the shopping basket [item basket]

(in the singular) an item (as a singular of goods), an article

billiga varor

varor som är på rea

(in the plural) goods, merchandise, wares

Kärleken har blivit en vara

vara (indefinite nominative singular)
varas (genitive indefinite singular)
varan (definite nominative singular)
varans (definite genitive singular)
varor (indefinite nominative plural)
varors (genitive indefinite plural)
varorna (definite nominative plural)
varornas (definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Old Swedish vara, from Old Norse vara, from Middle Low German ware. Cognate with Danish vare, German Ware, English ware. Could be related to Sanskrit वर (vara, “valuable”).


vara

Såret började vara efter några timmar.

The wound began to fill with pus after a few hours.

varar (present)
varade (preterite)
varat (supine)
vara (imperative)
vara (active infinitive)
varas (infinitive passive)
varat (active supine)
varats (passive supine)
vara (active imperative)
varen (active archaic)
varar (active indicative present)
varade (active indicative past)
varas (indicative passive present)
varades (indicative passive past)
vara (active archaic present)
varade (active archaic past)
varas (archaic passive present)
varades (archaic passive past)
vare (active dated present subjunctive)
varade (active dated past subjunctive)
vares (dated passive present subjunctive)
varades (dated passive past subjunctive)
varande (active participle past present)

Attested since 1664. From var (“pus”) + -a.


vara

vara (nominative singular)
varad (nominative plural)
varan (accusative singular)
varad (accusative plural)
varan (genitive singular)
varoiden (genitive plural)
varad (partitive singular)
varoid (partitive plural)
varan (essive-instructive singular)
varoin (essive-instructive plural)
varaks (singular translative)
varoikš (plural translative)
varas (inessive singular)
varoiš (inessive plural)
varaspäi (elative singular)
varoišpäi (elative plural)
varaha (illative singular)
varoihe (illative plural)
varal (adessive singular)
varoil (adessive plural)
varalpäi (ablative singular)
varoilpäi (ablative plural)
varale (allative singular)
varoile (allative plural)
varata (abessive singular)
varoita (abessive plural)
varanke (comitative singular)
varoidenke (comitative plural)
varadme (prolative singular)
varoidme (plural prolative)
varanno (approximative approximative-i singular)
varoidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
varannoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
varoidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
varannopäi (egressive singular)
varoidennopäi (egressive plural)
varahasai (singular terminative terminative-i)
varoihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
varalesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
varoilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
varassai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
varahapäi (additive additive-i singular)
varoihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
varalepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
varoilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *vara, borrowed from Germanic. Cognates include Finnish vara.


vara

vara (nominative singular)
varad (nominative plural)
vara (genitive singular)
varojõ (genitive plural)
varoi (genitive plural)
varra (partitive singular)
varoitõ (partitive plural)
varoi (partitive plural)
varrasõ (illative singular)
varra (illative singular)
varoisõ (illative plural)
varaz (inessive singular)
varoiz (inessive plural)
varassõ (elative singular)
varoissõ (elative plural)
varalõ (allative singular)
varoilõ (allative plural)
varallõ (adessive singular)
varoillõ (adessive plural)
varaltõ (ablative singular)
varoiltõ (ablative plural)
varassi (singular translative)
varoissi (plural translative)