offervillig

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of offer (“sacrifice”) +‎ villig.

Adjective

offervillig (comparative offervilligare, superlative offervilligast)

1. willing to sacrifice

Declension

Inflection of offervillig
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	offervillig	offervilligare	offervilligast
Neuter singular	offervilligt	offervilligare	offervilligast
Plural	offervilliga	offervilligare	offervilligast
Masculine plural3	offervillige	offervilligare	offervilligast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	offervillige	offervilligare	offervilligaste
All	offervilliga	offervilligare	offervilligaste
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

• offervillighet

Further reading

• offervillig in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker