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Swedish
Etymology
Compound of skepp + -s- + bruten.
Adjective
skeppsbruten (not comparable)
- shipwrecked
- (nominalized) someone shipwrecked, a castaway
rädda de skeppsbrutna på ön- save the castaways on the island
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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