förmäten

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See also: formaten and Formaten

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish formætin, from Middle Low German vormeten, the past participle of a verb originally meaning "to overestimate" or "to mismeasure". Cognate of German vermessen.

Adjective

förmäten (not comparable)

  1. presumptious

Declension

Inflection of förmäten
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular förmäten
Neuter singular förmätet
Plural förmätna
Masculine plural3 förmätne
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 förmätne
All förmätna
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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