gästvänlig

Swedish

Etymology

gäst (“guest”) +‎ vänlig (“friendly, kind”)

Adjective

gästvänlig (not comparable)

  1. hospitable (of a person)
    Synonym: gästfri
  2. hospitable (of a place)

Usage notes

SO appears to not include the person sense (or only include it very vaguely), perhaps from wanting to separate gästvänlig from the less common gästfri. The 1929 SAOB entry only gives the person sense. "Han är gästvänlig" has four times as many hits on Google compared to "Han är gästfri" as of writing.

Declension

Inflection of gästvänlig
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular gästvänlig — —
neuter singular gästvänligt — —
plural gästvänliga — —
masculine plural2 gästvänlige — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 gästvänlige — —
all gästvänliga — —

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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