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Swedish
Etymology
o- + tillbörlig, dating back to Old Swedish, cognate with Norwegian and Danish utilbørlig
Adjective
otillbörlig (comparative mer otillbörlig, superlative mest otillbörlig)
- improper, inappropriate, undue
- Genesis 34:7 (King James Version vs. Swedish 1917 translation)
- han hade gjort vad som var en galenskap i Israel, i det han hade lägrat Jakobs dotter - en otillbörlig gärning.
- he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
- Jack London, The God of His Fathers, chapter: The Man with the Gash
- han följde ständigt solen med ögonen, som med otillbörlig hast arbetade sig upp över himlens östliga båge
- his eyes constantly gauging the progress of the sun, which tore up the eastern slope of the heavens with unseemly haste.
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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