helskinnad
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]hel (“whole”) + skinnad (“skinned”)
Adjective
[edit]helskinnad (not comparable)
- unscathed, unharmed
- Hon klarade sig helskinnad från mötet med björnen
- She escaped the encounter with the bear unscathed
- Gävlebocken klarade sig helskinnad 2022
- The Gävle goat survived unscathed in 2022
- Politikern klarade sig helskinnad genom presskonferensen
- The politician made it through the press conference unscathed (figurative)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of helskinnad | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | helskinnad | — | — |
| Neuter singular | helskinnat | — | — |
| Plural | helskinnade | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | helskinnade | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | helskinnade | — | — |
| All | helskinnade | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||