folkvald
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Swedish
Etymology
folk (“people”) + vald (“elected, chosen”)
Adjective
folkvald (not comparable)
- elected (or more rarely otherwise chosen) by the people
- (nominalized) someone elected by the people, especially a member of the Riksdag or some other public representative
Declension
| Inflection of folkvald | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | folkvald | — | — |
| Neuter singular | folkvalt | — | — |
| Plural | folkvalda | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | folkvalde | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | folkvalde | — | — |
| All | folkvalda | — | — |
| 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 | |||