bindgalen

Swedish

Etymology

binda (“tie up”) +‎ galen (“mad”), probably due to the historical practice of restraining certain mentally ill people by tying them up. Compare Danish bindegal and French fou à lier.

Adjective

bindgalen (not comparable)

  1. (informal) stark raving mad

Declension

Inflection of bindgalen
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular bindgalen — —
neuter singular bindgalet — —
plural bindgalna — —
masculine plural2 bindgalne — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 bindgalne — —
all bindgalna — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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