oförklarlig
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Swedish
Etymology
o- (“un-”) + förklarlig (“explainable”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
oförklarlig (not comparable)
- inexplicable, unexplainable
- av någon oförklarlig anledning
- for some inexplicable reason
- unexplained
- oförklarlig fågeldöd
- unexplained bird death
Usage notes
Oförklarad would be the literal translation in (sense 2), but oförklarlig is more idiomatic, focusing on people's (current) inability to explain something rather than on it not being explained.
Declension
| Inflection of oförklarlig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | oförklarlig | — | — |
| Neuter singular | oförklarligt | — | — |
| Plural | oförklarliga | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | oförklarlige | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | oförklarlige | — | — |
| All | oförklarliga | — | — |
| 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 | |||