oskuldsfull
Swedish
editEtymology
editoskuld (“innocence”) + -s- + -full
Adjective
editoskuldsfull (comparative oskuldsfullare, superlative oskuldsfullast)
- innocent (free from immorality), (sometimes) naive (through assuming too much good of people, due to lack of life experience or otherwise)
- Han visste inte vad det snuskiga ordet betydde. Han är så oskuldsfull.
- He didn't know what the dirty word meant. He's so innocent.
- Hon är för oskuldsfull för att kunna tro att de skulle manipulera henne
- She is too innocent to [be able to] believe that they would manipulate her
- en oskuldsfull barndom
- an innocent childhood
Declension
edit| Inflection of oskuldsfull | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | oskuldsfull | oskuldsfullare | oskuldsfullast |
| Neuter singular | oskuldsfullt | oskuldsfullare | oskuldsfullast |
| Plural | oskuldsfulla | oskuldsfullare | oskuldsfullast |
| Masculine plural3 | oskuldsfulle | oskuldsfullare | oskuldsfullast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | oskuldsfulle | oskuldsfullare | oskuldsfullaste |
| All | oskuldsfulla | oskuldsfullare | oskuldsfullaste |
| 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 | |||
See also
edit- oskyldig (the word to use for "innocent" as in "not guilty")