kalas
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Cebuano
Verb
kalas
- to squander
Adjective
kalas
Estonian
Noun
kalas
Iban
Pronunciation
Noun
kalas
Adjective
kalas
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
kalas n
- a party, especially a more festive party focused more on eating than drinking alcohol
- ett födelsedagskalas
- a birthday party
- ett barnkalas
- a children's party
- (colloquial, as a prefix) super (as a positive intensifier)
- Det blir kalasbra!
- That will be super!
- (colloquial, in adjectival usage) great, (often) without a hitch
- – Hur gick veterinärbesöket? – Det gick kalas! Han var helt lugn.
- – How did the visit to the vet go? – It went without a hitch! He was completely calm.
Usage notes
- A more innocent, festive party, intuitively, with cake or the like. Especially of children's parties. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek of other parties.
- Somewhat ironically adopted into orten slang as a more general superlative.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | kalas | kalas |
| definite | kalaset | kalasets | |
| plural | indefinite | kalas | kalas |
| definite | kalasen | kalasens |
Derived terms
- barnkalas
- födelsedagskalas
- kalasa
- kalasbyxa
- kalaskula
- kalasmat
See also
Interjection
kalas
- (colloquial) super, great, smashing
References
Anagrams
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈlas/ [kɐˈlas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: ka‧las
Noun
kalás (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜐ᜔)
- act of untying, unbinding, unknotting or ungluing something
- Synonym: kalag
- separation from a larger group or organization
- Synonym: tiwalag
Adjective
kalás (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜐ᜔)
Derived terms
- kalasin
- kumalas
- magkalas
- makalas
- mangalas
- pagkalas
Turkish
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