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bastant

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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Adjective edit

bastant m or f (masculine and feminine plural bastants)

  1. enough, sufficient

Adverb edit

bastant

  1. enough, sufficiently

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

bastant

  1. gerund of bastar

Norman edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective edit

bastant m

  1. (Jersey) adequate

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From a Romance language.

Adjective edit

bastant (comparative bastantare, superlative bastantast)

  1. big and sturdy
  2. (by extension) burly, stocky
    en bastant skogshuggare
    a burly lumberjack
  3. (by extension, of for example a meal) big, hearty

Usage notes edit

Similar varying sense extensions as could be expected from sturdy in English.

Declension edit

Inflection of bastant
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular bastant bastantare bastantast
Neuter singular bastant bastantare bastantast
Plural bastanta bastantare bastantast
Masculine plural3 bastante bastantare bastantast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 bastante bastantare bastantaste
All bastanta bastantare bastantaste
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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