bokstavstrogen

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of bokstav +‎ -s- +‎ trogen. Compare English to the letter.

Adjective

bokstavstrogen (comparative mer bokstavstrogen, superlative mest bokstavstrogen)

  1. literal
  2. (of a person) literalist, fundamentalist (believing in the literal content of a (religious) text)
  3. word-for-word

Declension

Inflection of bokstavstrogen
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular bokstavstrogen — —
neuter singular bokstavstroget — —
plural bokstavstrogna — —
masculine plural2 bokstavstrogne — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 bokstavstrogne — —
all bokstavstrogna — —

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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