väärne

Väärne is an Estonian adjective meaning false, untrue, or deceitful. It is used to describe statements, claims, representations, or things that do not reflect reality or truth; it can express deliberate deception or mistaken accuracy depending on context.

Typical usage includes attributive position before a noun, as in "väärne väide" (false claim) or "väärne hinnang" (false assessment). It can also occur predicatively with the Estonian copula to say that something is false. Like other adjectives, väärne inflects for number and case and can take comparative and superlative forms.

Etymology: The word is native to Estonian and shares cognates with other Finnic languages; for example Finnish väärä means false or wrong, reflecting a common Finnic heritage.

See also: Estonian language; falsehood; linguistic morphology.