galen

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See also: Galen and galèn

Galician

Verb

galen

  1. inflection of galar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cadena.

Noun

galen

  1. chain

References

  • Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 94

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse galinn. Compare Swedish galen, Faroese galin and Norwegian Bokmål gal.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɡɑːlən/, /²ɡɑːɽən/

Adjective

galen (neuter gale, definite singular and plural galne, comparative galnare, indefinite superlative galnast, definite superlative galnaste)

  1. crazy, mad, insane
  2. wrong, incorrect
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gala.

Participle

galen (neuter gale, definite singular and plural galne)

  1. past participle of gala

References

Old English

Verb

galen

  1. past participle of galan

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɡɑːlɛn/
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Etymology 1

Participle

galen

  1. past participle of gala

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish galin, from Old Norse galinn.

Adjective

galen (comparative galnare, superlative galnast)

  1. crazy, mad, insane (e.g. of a person or situation)
    Han är galen
    He is crazy
    Han blev galen av ilska
    He went crazy with anger
  2. (with i (“in”)) crazy about (loving)
    Jag är galen i majs
    I'm crazy about corn
  3. wrong, amiss
    Ojdå, det där blev lite galet
    Oops, that turned out a bit crazy
  4. (gone) awry (not according to plan)
    Synonyms: fel, snett, på tok
    Det gick galet
    It went awry (turned out crazy)
Usage notes

Gå galet always means go awry, rather than go crazy; the latter is instead expressed as bli galen.

Declension
Inflection of galen
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular galen galnare galnast
neuter singular galet galnare galnast
plural galna galnare galnast
masculine plural2 galne galnare galnast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 galne galnare galnaste
all galna galnare galnaste

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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References

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