sekig
Swedish edit
Adjective edit
sekig (comparative sekigare, superlative sekigast)
- (regional, northern Sweden) (too) slow, boring
- Har de inte börjat packa än? Gud så sekiga de är.
- Haven't they started packing yet? God they're slow.
- Vilken sekig film! Vi kollar på nåt annat.
- What a slow and boring movie! Let's watch something else.
- (regional, northern Sweden) sad, tiring
- Sekigt att katten dog!
- It's sad that your cat died! (I'm sorry that your cat died!)
Usage notes edit
The sad sense in (sense 2) is from the notion of tiring (and slow to deal with).
Declension edit
| Inflection of sekig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | sekig | sekigare | sekigast |
| Neuter singular | sekigt | sekigare | sekigast |
| Plural | sekiga | sekigare | sekigast |
| Masculine plural3 | sekige | sekigare | sekigast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | sekige | sekigare | sekigaste |
| All | sekiga | sekigare | sekigaste |
| 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 | |||