lavinartad

Swedish

Etymology

lavin (“avalanche”) +‎ -artad (“-like”)

Adjective

lavinartad (not comparable)

  1. (figuratively) great and fast (and uncontrolled)
    Arbetslösheten ökade lavinartat
    There was an avalanche of unemployment ("Unemployment increased avalance-like")

Declension

Inflection of lavinartad
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular lavinartad — —
neuter singular lavinartat — —
plural lavinartade — —
masculine plural2 lavinartade — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 lavinartade — —
all lavinartade — —

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.

References

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