teutonisk
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Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of teuton (“Teuton”) + -isk (“-ic”).
Adjective
[edit]teutonisk
- Teutonic
- 1872, Louisa May Alcott, anonymous translator, Våra vänner från i fjor [Little Women], page 340:
- Lik en rask teutonisk riddare gick professorn upp och ned i de gröna gångarne, hållande i handen en stång i stället för lans och anförande gossarne, hvilka gjorde sig till ett gymnastiserande akrobatsällskap […]
- Like a dashing Teutonic knight, the professor strode up and down the green corridors, holding in his hand a rod instead of a lance, and charged the boys, who made themselves into a gymnastic acrobat company […]
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of teutonisk | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | teutonisk | mer teutonisk | mest teutonisk |
| Neuter singular | teutoniskt | mer teutoniskt | mest teutoniskt |
| Plural | teutoniska | mer teutoniska | mest teutoniska |
| Masculine plural3 | teutoniske | mer teutoniska | mest teutoniska |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | teutoniske | mer teutoniske | mest teutoniske |
| All | teutoniska | mer teutoniska | mest teutoniska |
| 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 | |||