knaper
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Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]knaper (comparative knaprare, superlative knaprast)
- scanty, meager
- Vi har det knapert
- We're on hard times ("have it scantily")
- en knaper måltid
- a scanty meal
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of knaper | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | knaper | knaprare | knaprast |
| Neuter singular | knapert | knaprare | knaprast |
| Plural | knapra | knaprare | knaprast |
| Masculine plural3 | knapre | knaprare | knaprast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | knapre | knaprare | knapraste |
| All | knapra | knaprare | knapraste |
| 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 | |||