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bokstavstrogen

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Swedish

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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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

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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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