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Difference between flera and fler
What is the difference between fler and flera?
The answer is that there is no difference between “fler” and “flera” and they can be used interchangeably if they refer to “more” in the sentence, when you compare, or they refer to “further”, or “additional”, like “one more” or “many more”. “Flera” is not interchangeable with “fler” if it refers to quantity (amount/number). When we refer to quantity as (many) then we have to choose “flera”.
Fler or flera is comparative form of pronoun många (many), and flest is the superlative form of många.
- många – fler – flest
- many – more -most
Flera can also be an indefinite pronoun, referring to “many” and can be interchangeable with “många”.
If you compare this sentence:
- Vi har fler/flera besökare idag än igår. “We have more visitors today than yesterday”
In this case, both fler and flera can be used interchangeably because we compare. In this case, it is an adjective.
Another case when fler and flera are interchangeable is when you refer to “further”, or “additional”, like “one more” or “many more”.
- Peter köpte fler/ flera kakor. “Peter bought additional cookies”
Flera as pronoun
Fler and flera are not interchangeable when you refer to the quantity (amount/number). When you refer to the quantity you have to use “flera” which means “many” and it is interchangeable with “många”.
- Peter äter flera kakor om dagen. “Peter eats many cookies a day”
- Peter äter många kakor om dagen.“Peter eats many cookies a day”
Flere and Fleste
The forms such as “flere” and “fleste” are obsolete forms of fler and flest and somewhat dialectical which is rarely used in the national standard Swedish language.
What is the difference between "fler" and "mer" ?
Both “fler” and “mer” means “more” in English. The difference between “mer” and “fler” is that fler refers to a countable quantity (many-more), while mer refers to countless quantities (much- more).
Fler is a comparative form of the adjective många (many).
- många – fler – flest
Många is also an indefinite pronoun. We use “många” for countable quantity as amount/ number.
- Peter äter många kakor. “Peter eats many cookies”
- mycket – mer – mest
- Peter dricker mycket vatten. “Peter drinks a lot of water”
What is the difference between "mer" and "mera" ?
There is no difference between “mer” and “mera”. They can be interchangeably used except for some fixed phrases.
