Danish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, forceful). By surface analysis, emfase +‎ -isk.

Adjective

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emfatisk

  1. emphatic (characterized by emphasis)

Inflection

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Inflection of emfatisk
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular emfatisk 2
Indefinite neuter singular emfatisk 2
Plural emfatiske 2
Definite attributive1 emfatiske
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, forceful). By surface analysis, emfase +‎ -isk.

Adjective

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emfatisk (indefinite singular emfatisk, definite singular and plural emfatiske)

  1. emphatic (characterized by emphasis)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, forceful). By surface analysis, emfase +‎ -isk.

Adjective

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emfatisk (indefinite singular emfatisk, definite singular and plural emfatiske)

  1. emphatic (characterized by emphasis)

Swedish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, forceful). By surface analysis, emfas +‎ -isk.

Adjective

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emfatisk

  1. emphatic (characterized by emphasis)

Declension

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Inflection of emfatisk
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular emfatisk
Neuter singular emfatiskt
Plural emfatiska
Masculine plural3 emfatiske
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 emfatiske
All emfatiska
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