nykter
Swedish edit
Adjective edit
nykter (comparative nyktrare, superlative nyktrast)
- sober (not drunk)
- När han, spiknykter, kom hem, satte han sig att sy med förtviflans fart.
- When he, fully sober, got home, he sat down to sew with a desperate speed.
- sober, abstaining (who doesn't drink)
- Den orättfärdige övar ej orätt mer, tjuven blir ärlig, lögnaren blir sann, svärjaren blir kvitt sin last och drinkarens händer fatta icke mer om glaset. Han har blivit nykter.
- The unrighteous makes no more evil, the thief becomes honest, the liar turns true, the swearer is acquitted of his vice and the drunkard's hands do no longer grasp the glass. He has become sober.
- sober; realistic, self-controlled, down-to-earth
- Det gäller att anlägga en nykter syn på denna sak.
- It is important to take a sober view on this issue.
Declension edit
| Inflection of nykter | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | nykter | nyktrare | nyktrast |
| Neuter singular | nyktert | nyktrare | nyktrast |
| Plural | nyktra | nyktrare | nyktrast |
| Masculine plural3 | nyktre | nyktrare | nyktrast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | nyktre | nyktrare | nyktraste |
| All | nyktra | nyktrare | nyktraste |
| 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 | |||
Derived terms edit
- spiknykter (“cold sober”)