Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French passable.

Adjective

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passabel

  1. acceptable, fair but not outstanding in any way
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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French passable. By surface analysis, passieren +‎ -abel.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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passabel (strong nominative masculine singular passabler, comparative passabler, superlative am passabelsten)

  1. passable, acceptable, fair

Declension

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Further reading

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  • passabel” in Duden online
  • passabel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swedish

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Adjective

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passabel (not comparable)

  1. passable (acceptable, but not much more)
    Synonym: hjälplig

Declension

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Inflection of passabel
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular passabel
Neuter singular passabelt
Plural passabla
Masculine plural3 passable
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 passable
All passabla
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

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