snårig

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Swedish

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Etymology

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snår (thicket, scrub, brushwood) +‎ -ig (-y)

Adjective

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snårig (comparative snårigare, superlative snårigast)

  1. scrubby, brushy, tangled (filled with snår)
    • 1961, Olle Adolphson (lyrics and music), “Trubbel [Trouble]”, in Visor trycka i år [Songs printed this year]‎[1]:
      Nu stryker vinden genom trädens höga kronor, men i min trädgård är det visset, mörkt och kallt. Här är det risigt och förvuxet, fult och snårigt.
      Now the wind sweeps [strokes, smooths] through the high crowns of the trees, but in my garden, it is withered, dark, and cold. Here it is scrubby and overgrown, ugly and tangled [avoids repeating "scrubby" (from "risig"), and "snårig" focuses on messiness].
  2. (figuratively) complicated, hard to survey (of for example a line of reasoning)

Declension

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Inflection of snårig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular snårig snårigare snårigast
Neuter singular snårigt snårigare snårigast
Plural snåriga snårigare snårigast
Masculine plural3 snårige snårigare snårigast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 snårige snårigare snårigaste
All snåriga snårigare snårigaste
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

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