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Swedish
Etymology
barn + -lös
Adjective
barnlös
- childless, without children
- Seled dog barnlös.
- Seled died without children. (1 Chronicles 2:30)
- Och Peninna hade barn, men Hanna var barnlös.
- and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. (1 Sam. 1:2)
Declension
| Inflection of barnlös
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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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barnlös
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—
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| Neuter singular
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barnlöst
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| Plural
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barnlösa
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| Masculine plural3
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barnlöse
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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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barnlöse
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| All
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barnlösa
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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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