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bindgalen

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Swedish

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Etymology

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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

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bindgalen (not comparable)

  1. (informal) stark raving mad

Declension

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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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