det var som fan in Swedish

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Etymology: Literally, “it was like damn”. Compare Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk det var som faen. Etymology templates: {{m-g|it was like damn}} “it was like damn”, {{lit|it was like damn}} Literally, “it was like damn”, {{cog|nb|-}} Norwegian Bokmål, {{cog|nn|det var som faen}} Norwegian Nynorsk det var som faen Head templates: {{head|sv|interjection}} det var som fan

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it was like damn"
      },
      "expansion": "“it was like damn”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it was like damn"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “it was like damn”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nb",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "det var som faen"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk det var som faen",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “it was like damn”. Compare Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk det var som faen.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "interjection"
      },
      "expansion": "det var som fan",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "intj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "So the whole forest burned down? I'll be damned.",
          "text": "Hela skogen brann ner alltså? Det var som fan.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(well) I'll be damned (expresses surprise)"
      ],
      "id": "en-det_var_som_fan-sv-intj-dtT4gjDk",
      "links": [
        [
          "I'll be damned",
          "I'll be damned"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) (well) I'll be damned (expresses surprise)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "det var som katten"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "det var som fan"
}

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{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it was like damn"
      },
      "expansion": "“it was like damn”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it was like damn"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “it was like damn”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nb",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "det var som faen"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk det var som faen",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “it was like damn”. Compare Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk det var som faen.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "interjection"
      },
      "expansion": "det var som fan",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swedish",
  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "intj",
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    {
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Swedish colloquialisms",
        "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swedish interjections",
        "Swedish lemmas",
        "Swedish multiword terms",
        "Swedish terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "So the whole forest burned down? I'll be damned.",
          "text": "Hela skogen brann ner alltså? Det var som fan.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(well) I'll be damned (expresses surprise)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "I'll be damned",
          "I'll be damned"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) (well) I'll be damned (expresses surprise)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "det var som katten"
    }
  ],
  "word": "det var som fan"
}

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"det var som fan" meaning in Swedish

Interjection

Inflected forms