omständlig

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Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German umständlich.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɔmˌstɛndlɪ(ɡ)/

Adjective

omständlig (comparative omständligare, superlative omständligast)

  1. not simple, brief, and straightforward; tedious, cumbersome, laborious, lengthy, complex, etc.
    en omständlig ansökningsprocess
    a tedious application process
    en omständlig beskrivning
    a long-winded description
    omständlig manuell hantering
    tedious manual management

Usage notes

A more common, sometimes proscribed variant is omständig, which might have arisen by analogy with other words ending in -ständig, e.g. självständig. Compare also omständighet (“circumstance”).

Declension

Inflection of omständlig
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular omständlig omständligare omständligast
neuter singular omständligt omständligare omständligast
plural omständliga omständligare omständligast
masculine plural2 omständlige omständligare omständligast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 omständlige omständligare omständligaste
all omständliga omständligare omständligaste

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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References

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