snårig
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
snår (“thicket, scrub, brushwood”) + -ig (“-y”)
Adjective edit
snårig (comparative snårigare, superlative snårigast)
- scrubby, brushy, tangled (filled with snår)
- 1961, Olle Adolphson (lyrics and music), “Trubbel [Trouble]”, in Visor trycka i år [Songs printed this year]:
- Nu stryker vinden genom trädens höga kronor, men i min trädgård är det visset, mörkt och kallt. Här är det risigt och förvuxet, fult och snårigt.
- Now the wind sweeps [strokes, smooths] through the high crowns of the trees, but in my garden, it is withered, dark, and cold. Here it is scrubby and overgrown, ugly and tangled [avoids repeating "scrubby" (from "risig"), and "snårig" focuses on messiness].
- (figuratively) complicated, hard to survey (of for example a line of reasoning)
Declension edit
| Inflection of snårig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | snårig | snårigare | snårigast |
| Neuter singular | snårigt | snårigare | snårigast |
| Plural | snåriga | snårigare | snårigast |
| Masculine plural3 | snårige | snårigare | snårigast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | snårige | snårigare | snårigaste |
| All | snåriga | snårigare | snårigaste |
| 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 | |||