förmäten

See also: formaten and Formaten

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish formætin, from Middle Low German vormeten, the past participle of a verb originally meaning "to overestimate" or "to mismeasure". Cognate of German vermessen.

Adjective

förmäten (not comparable)

  1. presumptious

Declension

Inflection of förmäten
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular förmäten — —
neuter singular förmätet — —
plural förmätna — —
masculine plural2 förmätne — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 förmätne — —
all förmätna — —

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.

Derived terms

References

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