oskadlig
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
o- + skadlig, from Old Swedish oskadheliker.
Adjective edit
oskadlig (comparative oskadligare, superlative oskadligast)
- harmless, innocuous
- De sammansvurne hade för övrigt endast att välja mellan kejsarmordet och inbördeskriget, och de kunde ju förebära den cesariska läran om »raison d’État», då de valde det förra som både säkrare och oskadligare.
- The conspirators had by the way only to chose between killing the emperor and civil war, and they could present the Cesarian theory of »raison d’État», when they preferred the former as being both safer and more harmless.
Declension edit
| Inflection of oskadlig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | oskadlig | oskadligare | oskadligast |
| Neuter singular | oskadligt | oskadligare | oskadligast |
| Plural | oskadliga | oskadligare | oskadligast |
| Masculine plural3 | oskadlige | oskadligare | oskadligast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | oskadlige | oskadligare | oskadligaste |
| All | oskadliga | oskadligare | oskadligaste |
| 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 | |||
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References edit
- oskadlig in Walter E. Harlock, Svensk-engelsk ordbok : skolupplaga (1964)
- oskadlig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- oskadlig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)