saklig
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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]saklig (neuter singular saklig, definite singular and plural saklige)
- factual
- objective
- matter-of-fact
- unprejudiced, impartial
- just, fair, unbiased
- businesslike
- (as an adverb) objectively, impartially, factually, matter-of-factly
Antonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- sakleg (Nynorsk)
References
[edit]- “saklig” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sak (“thing”) + -lig (“-ly”). Compare Danish saglig, Norwegian saklig, German sachlich, sächlich.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]saklig (comparative sakligare, superlative sakligast)
- dealing with things as they are (without agenda or expressed bias or the like); objective, unbiased, just, matter-of-fact, factual, etc.
- Antonym: osaklig
- Bra journalister klarar av att vara sakliga
- Good journalists manage to be objective
- saklig information
- factual information
- saklig kritik
- objective criticism
Usage notes
[edit]Keeping to the thing (sak) at hand, as it is, intuitively.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of saklig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | saklig | sakligare | sakligast |
| Neuter singular | sakligt | sakligare | sakligast |
| Plural | sakliga | sakligare | sakligast |
| Masculine plural3 | saklige | sakligare | sakligast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | saklige | sakligare | sakligaste |
| All | sakliga | sakligare | sakligaste |
| 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 | |||