Significado
Something makes no sense.
Contexto cultural
Danes value directness. Saying 'Det er helt væk' is a way of being direct about your opinion without necessarily being aggressive, as long as it's among peers. In Copenhagen, slang evolves fast. 'Helt væk' is often supplemented with 'mand' or 'bror' (brother) to create a sense of camaraderie in disbelief. Even in flat-hierarchy Danish offices, this phrase is usually reserved for the lunchroom, not the boardroom. You will see this phrase in headlines of tabloid newspapers like Ekstra Bladet or BT when they want to highlight an 'outrageous' story.
Add 'mand'
Adding 'mand' at the end makes you sound much more like a native speaker when using this phrase.
Check your subject
Make sure you aren't calling a person 'helt væk' to their face unless you are joking, as it can be offensive.
Significado
Something makes no sense.
Add 'mand'
Adding 'mand' at the end makes you sound much more like a native speaker when using this phrase.
Check your subject
Make sure you aren't calling a person 'helt væk' to their face unless you are joking, as it can be offensive.
The 'Price' Rule
If you want to bond with a Dane, complain about the price of something using this phrase.
Ponte a prueba
Which is the most natural way to react to a very expensive coffee?
En kop kaffe koster 90 kroner.
'Helt væk' is the fixed slang expression for absurdity.
Fill in the missing word to complete the slang phrase.
Jeg forstår intet af, hvad han siger. Han er ____ væk.
'Helt' is the necessary intensifier for this idiom.
Match the sentence to the context.
1. Min cykel er helt væk. 2. Hans idé er helt væk.
Context determines if 'væk' is literal or slang.
Complete the dialogue with the correct slang term.
A: 'Skal vi købe den her jakke til 5000 kroner?' B: 'Nej, ____!'
Used to reject an absurd price.
🎉 Puntuación: /4
Ayudas visuales
When to say 'Det er helt væk'
Prices
- • Coffee
- • Rent
- • Beer
Logic
- • Bad plans
- • Weird rules
- • Nonsense
State
- • Drunk
- • High
- • Confused
Banco de ejercicios
4 ejerciciosEn kop kaffe koster 90 kroner.
'Helt væk' is the fixed slang expression for absurdity.
Jeg forstår intet af, hvad han siger. Han er ____ væk.
'Helt' is the necessary intensifier for this idiom.
1. Min cykel er helt væk. 2. Hans idé er helt væk.
Context determines if 'væk' is literal or slang.
A: 'Skal vi købe den her jakke til 5000 kroner?' B: 'Nej, ____!'
Used to reject an absurd price.
🎉 Puntuación: /4
Preguntas frecuentes
10 preguntasIt can be. It's very informal. Use it with friends, but avoid it with your boss or elderly people you don't know well.
Usually no. It's almost always negative or expressing disbelief at something bad/weird. For 'crazy good', use 'helt vildt'.
'Væk' is literal (gone). 'Helt væk' is usually the slang version (crazy).
Yes, but it means 'You are crazy' or 'You are out of it'. Be careful!
Yes, it's used all over Denmark, though the pronunciation might vary slightly.
Only in a very casual email to a close friend. Never in a professional email.
Literally, yes. Figuratively, it means logic is lost.
There isn't a direct slang opposite, but 'helt i orden' (completely in order) or 'fornuftigt' (reasonable) work.
It started that way, but now people in their 30s and 40s use it too.
Yes! It's a fun, more emphatic version of the same phrase.
Frases relacionadas
Helt sort
similarCompletely nonsensical
Helt ristet
synonymTotally crazy/high
Gak gak
similarCrazy/Wacky
Ude af trit
contrastOut of step
Væk i vinduet
specialized formTotally gone
