backig
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
backe (“hill (slope)”) + -ig (“-y”)
Adjective edit
backig (comparative backigare, superlative backigast)
- hilly (having many ups and downs, of a road (or the roads in an area) or the like)
- en backig väg
- a hilly road
- en backig stad
- a hilly city
- cykla tre backiga mil
- cycle thirty hilly kilometers
Declension edit
| Inflection of backig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | backig | backigare | backigast |
| Neuter singular | backigt | backigare | backigast |
| Plural | backiga | backigare | backigast |
| Masculine plural3 | backige | backigare | backigast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | backige | backigare | backigaste |
| All | backiga | backigare | backigaste |
| 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 | |||
See also edit
- kullig (“hilly in the sense of having many elevated landmasses”)