Swedish

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Etymology

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vid (wide) +‎ öppen (open)

Adjective

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vidöppen (not comparable)

  1. wide open (completely open)
    Dörren stod vidöppen när polisen kom dit
    The door was wide open when the police got there
  2. wide open (unsettled or unresolved)
    en vidöppen match
    a wide open game
  3. wide open (vulnerable, unprotected)
    Systemet med de känsliga uppgifterna stod vidöppet
    The system containing the sensitive information was wide open

Declension

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Inflection of vidöppen
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular vidöppen
Neuter singular vidöppet
Plural vidöppna
Masculine plural3 vidöppne
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 vidöppne
All vidöppna
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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