mjäkig

Swedish

Etymology

Unknown.

Adjective

mjäkig (comparative mjäkigare, superlative mjäkigast)

1. soft and submissive, namby-pamby

Declension

Inflection of mjäkig
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	mjäkig	mjäkigare	mjäkigast
Neuter singular	mjäkigt	mjäkigare	mjäkigast
Plural	mjäkiga	mjäkigare	mjäkigast
Masculine plural3	mjäkige	mjäkigare	mjäkigast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	mjäkige	mjäkigare	mjäkigaste
All	mjäkiga	mjäkigare	mjäkigaste
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

References

• mjäkig in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mjäkig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mjäkig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• mjäker in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)