värsta

See also: varsta and vârstă

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²væʂʈa/

Etymology 1

Superlative attributive of värre, the superlative predicative is värst. The positive dålig has a suppletive inflection.

Adjective

värsta

1. attributive superlative degree of dålig

Etymology 2

From the superlative form above where the meaning most bad or most poor has gotten an opposite meaning. A similar analogy can be seen in grym which originally means "cruel" but has gotten a meaning of "awesome" or "cool" instead. Interestingly enough the same has happened with cruel in English which also can mean "awesome" or "cool", colloquially.

Adjective

värsta (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) An intensifier.

   Du tror att du är värsta playern va, men det är du inte!

   You think you're a freaking player huh, but you're not!

   Asså, hon har typ blivit värsta TikTok-kändisen.

   I mean, she's kinda become a fricking TikTok celebrity.

Usage notes

"Someone/something /verb/ värsta /noun in the definite form/" is the way that phrases are constructed using this word.

Derived terms

• värsting

Anagrams

• sträva, stävar, svärta, västar, västra