gredelin
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French gridelin.
Adjective edit
gredelin (not comparable)
Usage notes edit
- The color above is an approximation. Kind of a faded purple.
- Still fairly well known, mostly from a character "tant Gredelin" ("Aunt Lavender" in the English translation) appearing in a series of storybooks by Elsa Beskow.
Declension edit
| Inflection of gredelin | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | gredelin | — | — |
| Neuter singular | gredelint | — | — |
| Plural | gredelina | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | gredeline | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | gredeline | — | — |
| All | gredelina | — | — |
| 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 | |||