Swedish

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Etymology

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Compound of bokstav +‎ -s- +‎ trogen. Compare English to the letter.

Adjective

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bokstavstrogen (comparative mer bokstavstrogen, superlative mest bokstavstrogen)

  1. literal
  2. (of a person) literalist, fundamentalist (believing in the literal content of a (religious) text)
  3. word-for-word

Declension

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Inflection of bokstavstrogen
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular bokstavstrogen
Neuter singular bokstavstroget
Plural bokstavstrogna
Masculine plural3 bokstavstrogne
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 bokstavstrogne
All bokstavstrogna
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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Further reading

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