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Danish
Suffix
-årig (neuter -årigt, e-form -årige)
- aged a specified number of years
- den treårige dreng – the three-year-old boy
- of a duration of the specified number of years
- en syvårig periode – a seven-year period
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From år (“year”) and -ig. Similar to Danish and Swedish (if not borrowed from one of them).
Suffix
-årig (plural -årige)
- aged the specified number of years, year-old
- lasting the specified number of years, -year
Eittårig plante- Annual plant
Swedish
Etymology
år (“year”) + -ig (“-y”)
Suffix
-årig
- aged the specified number of years, year-old
en sjuttioårig man är en sjuttioåring- a seventy-year-old man is a seventy-year-old
- lasting the specified number of years, year
ett femårigt krig- a five-year war
Declension
| Inflection of -årig
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| Indefinite
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Positive
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Comparative
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Superlative2
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| Common singular
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-årig
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| Neuter singular
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-årigt
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| Plural
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-åriga
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| Masculine plural3
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-årige
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| Definite
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Positive
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Comparative
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Superlative
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| Masculine singular1
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-årige
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| All
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-åriga
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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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