hjälplös

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Swedish

Etymology

From hjälp (“help”) +‎ -lös (“-less”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

hjälplös (comparative hjälplösare, superlative hjälplösast)

  1. helpless

Declension

Inflection of hjälplös
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular hjälplös hjälplösare hjälplösast
Neuter singular hjälplöst hjälplösare hjälplösast
Plural hjälplösa hjälplösare hjälplösast
Masculine plural3 hjälplöse hjälplösare hjälplösast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 hjälplöse hjälplösare hjälplösaste
All hjälplösa hjälplösare hjälplösaste
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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