efterhängsen

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Swedish

Etymology

From efter +‎ hängsen. Roughly "after-hanging."

Adjective

efterhängsen (comparative mer efterhängsen, superlative mest efterhängsen)

  1. persistently maintaining (unwanted) contact (with someone, in an irritating, intrusive manner)
  2. (by extension) lingering, not going away
    en efterhängsen förkylning
    a cold that won't go away

Usage notes

Somewhat similar idea to stalkerish, but not pathological-sounding in itself. A person who persistently maintains contact that you wish would go away.

Declension

Inflection of efterhängsen
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular efterhängsen mer efterhängsen mest efterhängsen
Neuter singular efterhängset mer efterhängset mest efterhängset
Plural efterhängsna mer efterhängsna mest efterhängsna
Masculine plural3 efterhängsne mer efterhängsna mest efterhängsna
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 efterhängsne mer efterhängsne mest efterhängsne
All efterhängsna mer efterhängsna mest efterhängsna
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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References

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