skaplig
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
skaplig
- pretty good, decent
- Hon är en skaplig violinist
- She's a decent violinist
- Stenen landade en meter från oss. Vi hade skaplig tur.
- The rock landed a meter from us. We had pretty good luck.
Usage notes edit
Sometimes stronger by ironic extension, similar to the last example.
Declension edit
| Inflection of skaplig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | skaplig | — | — |
| Neuter singular | skapligt | — | — |
| Plural | skapliga | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | skaplige | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | skaplige | — | — |
| All | skapliga | — | — |
| 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 | |||