vaksam

Swedish

Etymology

vaka +‎ -sam. Cognate of English wakesome, German wachsam, Dutch waakzaam, Norwegian Bokmål vaktsom.

Adjective

vaksam (comparative vaksammare, superlative vaksammast)

  1. vigilant

Declension
Inflection of vaksam
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular vaksam vaksammare vaksammast
Neuter singular vaksamt vaksammare vaksammast
Plural vaksamma vaksammare vaksammast
Masculine plural3 vaksamme vaksammare vaksammast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 vaksamme vaksammare vaksammaste
All vaksamma vaksammare vaksammaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Derived terms
  • vaksamhet

References
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