hållbar
Swedish
editEtymology
edithålla (“hold”) + -bar (“-able”)
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: håll‧bar
Adjective
edithållbar (comparative hållbarare, superlative hållbarast)
- durable (not prone to breaking)
- hållbara leksaker
- durable toys
- long-lasting, long-life (of something that spoils or the like with time)
- sustainable
- hållbar utveckling
- sustainable development
Usage notes
editOften expressed as "med lång hållbarhet (“shelf life”)" instead in (sense 2). "Hållbar mjölk" is likely to be read as "sustainable milk."
Declension
edit| Inflection of hållbar | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | hållbar | hållbarare | hållbarast |
| Neuter singular | hållbart | hållbarare | hållbarast |
| Plural | hållbara | hållbarare | hållbarast |
| Masculine plural3 | hållbare | hållbarare | hållbarast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | hållbare | hållbarare | hållbaraste |
| All | hållbara | hållbarare | hållbaraste |
| 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 | |||