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gredelin

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French gridelin.

Adjective

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gredelin (not comparable)

  1. (color, now rare) (bright) lavender
    gredelin:  

Usage notes

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  • The color above is an approximation. Kind of a faded purple.
  • Still fairly well known, mostly from a character "tant Gredelin" ("Aunt Lavender" in the English translation) appearing in a series of storybooks by Elsa Beskow.

Declension

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Inflection of gredelin
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular gredelin
neuter singular gredelint
plural gredelina
masculine plural2 gredeline
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 gredeline
all gredelina

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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