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Swedish
Etymology
o- + tjänlig, used since 1554, cognate with Danish utjenlig and German undienlich.
Adjective
otjänlig (comparative otjänligare, superlative otjänligast)
- unsuitable, unfit, inappropriate, useless, worthless, impractical, condemned (of buildings)
- otjänlig som människoföda
- unfit for human consumption
- fri från all otjänlig sentimentalitet vet han ej vad hemlängtan vill säga
- void of all impractical sentimentality he doesn't know of any homesickness
- Rostock vore dessutom en otjänligare plats än Stralsund.
- And Rostock would be an even less suitable location than Stralsund.
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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