skamlig
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Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]skam (“shame”) + -lig (“-ly”)
Adjective
[edit]skamlig (comparative skamligare, superlative skamligast)
- shameful, disgraceful (giving reason to feel shame)
- en skamlig attack på min person
- a shameful attack on my person
- indecent
- Synonym: oanständig
- ge någon skamliga förslag
- proposition someone
- (literally, “give someone indecent [implied] suggestions”)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of skamlig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | skamlig | skamligare | skamligast |
| Neuter singular | skamligt | skamligare | skamligast |
| Plural | skamliga | skamligare | skamligast |
| Masculine plural3 | skamlige | skamligare | skamligast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | skamlige | skamligare | skamligaste |
| All | skamliga | skamligare | skamligaste |
| 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 | |||