Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Compound of barn (children) and kär (loving, fond of).

Adjective edit

barnkär (comparative barnkärare, superlative barnkärast)

  1. fond of children

Declension edit

Inflection of barnkär
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular barnkär
Neuter singular barnkärt
Plural barnkära
Masculine plural3 barnkäre
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 barnkäre
All barnkära
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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