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Swedish
Etymology
läge (“situation”) + -lig, Old Swedish läghliker, from Middle Low German legelik.
Adjective
läglig (comparative lägligare, superlative lägligast)
- timely, well-timed, fitting, suitable; happening at the right time or occasion
- Bible, Matth. 26:16
- Och från den stunden sökte han efter lägligt tillfälle att förråda honom.
- And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
- Shakespeare, Macbeth, II, 1.
- Nämn tiden, ni. — När helst ni finner lägligt.
- If you would grant the time. — At your kind'st leisure.
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.
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