frajer

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech frejieř. Borrowed from German Freier. Doublet of frejíř. First attested in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrajɛr]

Noun

frajer m anim (female equivalent frajerka)

1. (colloquial) cool guy

   Je to vážně frajer! ― He's a really cool guy!

2. (colloquial, rare, old) boyfriend

Declension

Declension of frajer (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	frajer	frajeři
genitive	frajera	frajerů
dative	frajerovi, frajeru	frajerům
accusative	frajera	frajery
vocative	frajere	frajeři
locative	frajerovi, frajeru	frajerech
instrumental	frajerem	frajery

Derived terms

• frajerka
• frajeřina
• frajeřit
• frajírek
• frája

See also

• nápadník
• přítel
• borec
• machr
• maník
• chlapík
• frája
• týpek, typ, typus, typan

Further reading

• “frajer”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “frajer”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “frajer”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish פֿרײַער (frayer). Doublet of frajérz. Compare Romanian fraier and Russian фра́ер (frájer).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈfra.jɛr/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Goral):
    • (Zagórze) IPA^(key): [ˈfra.jɛr]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ajɛr
• Syllabification: fra‧jer

Noun

frajer m pers (female equivalent frajerka)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) sucker, mug, chump

   Synonyms: naiwniak, jeleń, łoś, lolek, durniacha

2. (colloquial) newbie, novice, greenhorn

   Synonyms: nowicjusz, żółtodziób

3. (colloquial) trifle, bagatelle, or piece of cake

   Synonyms: bagatela, bagatelka, betka, błahostka, bzdet, drobiazg, drobnostka, fraszka, pryszczyk

Declension

Declension of frajer

	singular	plural
nominative	frajer	frajerzy/frajery (deprecative)
genitive	frajera	frajerów
dative	frajerowi	frajerom
accusative	frajera	frajerów
instrumental	frajerem	frajerami
locative	frajerze	frajerach
vocative	frajerze	frajerzy

Derived terms

adjective

• frajerski

noun

• frajerstwo

Further reading

• “frajer”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “frajer”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Józefa Kobylińska (2001), “frajer”, in Marian Kucała, editor, Słownik gwary gorczańskiej (zagórzańskiej)‎^[3] (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, →ISBN, page 39

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Freier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frâjer/

Noun

frȁjer m anim (Cyrillic spelling фра̏јер)

1. guy
2. an attractive man, hunk
3. dandy, fop
4. an arrogant man
5. a naive man
6. loafer

Usage notes

In contemporary colloquial usage, this word generally means guy or hunk.

Declension

Declension of frajer

	singular	plural
nominative	frajer	frajeri
genitive	frajera	frajera
dative	frajeru	frajerima
accusative	frajera	frajere
vocative	frajeru	frajeri
locative	frajeru	frajerima
instrumental	frajerom	frajerima

Synonyms

• (guy): dečko, momak
• (attractive man): dasa, šmeker
• (dandy, fop): kicoš
• (loafer): mangup

References

• Moderni srpsko-nemački: Mačak hohštapler, Deutsche Welle, 2011
• “frajer”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• Речник српског језика, Српска дигитална библиотека, Србософт

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frajer/, [ˈfrajer]
• Rhymes: -ajer
• Hyphenation: fra‧jer

Noun

frajer m pers (female equivalent frajerka, relational adjective frajerský, diminutive frajerček or frajerík, augmentative frajerisko or frajerčisko)

1. boyfriend
2. (colloquial) cool guy
3. (colloquial, expressive) dandy, beau, fop
4. (colloquial, expressive) womanizer

Declension

Declension of frajer
(pattern chlap)

	singular	plural
nominative	frajer	frajeri
genitive	frajera	frajerov
dative	frajerovi	frajerom
accusative	frajera	frajerov
locative	frajerovi	frajeroch
instrumental	frajerom	frajermi

Further reading

• “frajer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026