nounadjectivepronounverb

ett var

where

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var has multiple common meanings:

Where (interrogative or relative adverb)
Used to ask about or refer to a place/location.
Example sense: “Var är du?” = “Where are you?”
Each / every (distributive determiner/pronoun)
Often used before a singular noun to mean “each (one)”.
Example sense: “Var dag” = “every day”; “var och en” = “each and every one”.
Pus (noun)
Medical/biological meaning: pus from an infection/wound.
Example sense: “Det kom var ur såret.” = “Pus came out of the wound.”

var (“where”): adverb (question/relative word)
var (“each/every”): determiner / pronoun (distributive)
var (“pus”): noun (common gender: ett var is not used; typically var as a mass noun)

var = “where”: vart (direction “to where”, in many contexts), på vilken plats (more formal)
var = “each/every”: varje (very common), envar (more formal), varenda (more emphatic)
var = “pus”: pus (loanword used in Swedish too), böldvätska (more technical)

For var = “where”: no direct antonym in normal usage.
For var = “each/every”: no clear antonym; sometimes contrastive ideas are expressed with ingen (“no/none”), någon (“some/any”), depending on context.
For var = “pus”: no direct antonym.

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