Swedish

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Etymology

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sinne +‎ -s- +‎ sjuk. Compare Danish sindssyg, Norwegian Bokmål sinnssyk and Norwegian Nynorsk sinnssjuk.

Adjective

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sinnessjuk (not comparable)

  1. mentally ill
  2. (colloquial) daft, insane

Declension

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Inflection of sinnessjuk
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular sinnessjuk
Neuter singular sinnessjukt
Plural sinnessjuka
Masculine plural3 sinnessjuke
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 sinnessjuke
All sinnessjuka
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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