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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish forfærliker, from Middle Low German vorvērlik, from vorvēren + -lik, equivalent to förfära + -lig.
Adjective
förfärlig
- terrible, dreadful, terrific
- Döden skred i sin förfärligaste gestalt fram över marken.
- Death was everywhere, and in his most terrific and disgusting aspects. (James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans, chapter 17)
- Han är en karl, som icke tycker det vara förfärligare att dö än att sofva ruset af sig (translation by Hagberg)
- A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 4, scene 2)
Declension
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
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