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handfallen

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Swedish

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Etymology

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hand (hand) +‎ fallen (fallen)

Adjective

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handfallen (comparative mer handfallen, superlative mest handfallen)

  1. helpless (to deal with something)
    Polisen står handfallen inför gängen
    The police are helpless to deal with the gangs

Declension

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Inflection of handfallen
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular handfallen
neuter singular handfallet
plural handfallna
masculine plural2 handfallne
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 handfallne
all handfallna

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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