redlig
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish redheliker (“due; right; honest”), from Middle Low German redelik. Compare German redlich.
Adjective
Declension
| Inflection of redlig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | redlig | redligare | redligast |
| Neuter singular | redligt | redligare | redligast |
| Plural | redliga | redligare | redligast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | redlige | redligare | redligaste |
| All | redliga | redligare | redligaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. | |||
Derived terms
- redlighet
References
- redlig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- redlig in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- redlig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- redlig in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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