-årig
See also: árig
Danish
editSuffix
edit-årig (neuter -årigt, e-form -årige)
- aged a specified number of years
- den treårige dreng – the three-year-old boy
- of a duration of the specified number of years
- en syvårig periode – a seven-year period
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom år (“year”) and -ig. Similar to Danish and Swedish (if not borrowed from one of them).
Suffix
edit-årig (plural -årige)
Swedish
editEtymology
editSuffix
edit-årig
- aged the specified number of years, year-old
- en sjuttioårig man är en sjuttioåring
- a seventy-year-old man is a seventy-year-old
- lasting the specified number of years, year
- ett femårigt krig
- a five-year war
Declension
edit| Inflection of -årig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | -årig | — | — |
| Neuter singular | -årigt | — | — |
| Plural | -åriga | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | -årige | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | -årige | — | — |
| All | -åriga | — | — |
| 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 | |||