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Swedish
Etymology
Old Swedish skiæmðær
Participle
skämd
- past participle of skämma
Adjective
skämd
- spoiled (e.g. fruit, eggs), ruined
- 1901, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, "Fridolins dårskap", poem in Fridolins lustgård och Dalmålningar på rim
Vid idealens spruckenhet, och känslans skämda vin, var får din själ sin druckenhet, du gamle Fridolin?- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
| Inflection of skämd
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| Indefinite
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Positive
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Comparative
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Superlative2
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| Common singular
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skämd
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| Neuter singular
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skämt
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| Plural
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skämda
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| Masculine plural3
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skämde
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| Definite
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Positive
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Comparative
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Superlative
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| Masculine singular1
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skämde
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| All
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skämda
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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
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