stöddig
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Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]stöddig (comparative stöddigare, superlative stöddigast)
- (colloquial) overconfident and cocky
- En stöddig kille gick runt och muckade gräl med alla på festen
- An overconfident cocky guy was walking around picking fights with everyone at the party
- Jag borde spelat på en enklare svårighetsgrad. Jag blev stöddig.
- I should've played on an easier difficulty level. I was overconfident.
- (dated) big, strong, sturdy
- Han tog sig en stöddig öl ― He had himself a big ("stout") glass of beer
Usage notes
[edit]Has masculine connotations (perhaps stemming from (sense 2)), so mostly used about men and boys.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of stöddig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | stöddig | stöddigare | stöddigast |
| Neuter singular | stöddigt | stöddigare | stöddigast |
| Plural | stöddiga | stöddigare | stöddigast |
| Masculine plural3 | stöddige | stöddigare | stöddigast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | stöddige | stöddigare | stöddigaste |
| All | stöddiga | stöddigare | stöddigaste |
| 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 | |||
Derived terms
[edit]- stöddighet ("stöddigness")