bakåtsträvare

Swedish

Etymology

From bakåt (“backwards”) +‎ sträva (“strive”) +‎ -are (“-er”).

Noun

bakåtsträvare c

  1. someone habitually opposed to (e.g. societal or technological) change, perhaps also wanting to see some changes that have already been made rolled back; a reactionary, a Luddite
    Kalla mig bakåtsträvare om ni vill, men allt var bättre förr
    Call me a Luddite if you want, but everything was better in the past

Declension

Declension of bakåtsträvare
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bakåtsträvare bakåtsträvares
definite bakåtsträvaren bakåtsträvarens
plural indefinite bakåtsträvare bakåtsträvares
definite bakåtsträvarna bakåtsträvarnas

See also

References

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