sekig

Swedish

Adjective

sekig (comparative sekigare, superlative sekigast)

(regional, northern Sweden) (too) slow, boring
Har de inte börjat packa än? Gud så sekiga de är.
Haven't they started packing yet? God they're slow.

Vilken sekig film! Vi kollar på nåt annat.
What a slow and boring movie! Let's watch something else.
(regional, northern Sweden) sad, tiring
Sekigt att katten dog!
It's sad that your cat died! (I'm sorry that your cat died!)

Usage notes

The sad sense in (sense 2) is from the notion of tiring (and slow to deal with).

Declension

Inflection of **sekig**
Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative¹
common singular	sekig	sekigare	sekigast
neuter singular	sekigt	sekigare	sekigast
plural	sekiga	sekigare	sekigast
masculine plural²	sekige	sekigare	sekigast

Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular³	sekige	sekigare	sekigaste
all	sekiga	sekigare	sekigaste

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.

References

sekig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)