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Swedish
Etymology
hård (“hard”) + -hänt (“-handed”)
Adjective
hårdhänt (comparative hårdhäntare, superlative hårdhäntast)
- rough (as opposed to mild), (sometimes by implication) heavy-handed
Var inte polisen lite väl hårdhänt mot den där snubben? Han verkade ju inte göra motstånd.- Weren't the police a bit rough with that guy? I mean, he didn't seem to be resisting.
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.
Adverb
hårdhänt (comparative hårdhäntare, superlative hårdhäntast)
- roughly (as opposed to mildly), (sometimes by implication) in a heavy-handed manner
Brottas inte så hårdhänt med nybörjarbrottarna- Don't wrestle so rough with the beginner wrestlers
Kunde inte upproret tryckts ner mindre hårdhänt?- Couldn't the uprising have been suppressed in a less heavy-handed manner?
Usage notes
Physically rough is the immediate intuition, with other senses as an extension.
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