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Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from French gridelin.
Adjective
gredelin (not comparable)
- (color, now rare) (bright) lavender
gredelin:
Usage notes
- The color above is an approximation. Kind of a faded purple.
- Still fairly well known, mostly from a character "tant Gredelin" ("Aunt Lavender" in the English translation) appearing in a series of storybooks by Elsa Beskow.
Declension
Inflection of gredelin
Indefinite
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positive
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comparative
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superlative1
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common singular
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gredelin
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—
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neuter singular
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gredelint
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plural
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gredelina
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masculine plural2
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gredeline
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Definite
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positive
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comparative
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superlative
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masculine singular3
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gredeline
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—
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—
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all
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gredelina
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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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