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Swedish
Etymology
snår (“thicket, scrub, brushwood”) + -ig (“-y”)
Adjective
snårig (comparative snårigare, superlative snårigast)
- scrubby, brushy, tangled (filled with snår)
1961, Olle Adolphson (lyrics and music), “Trubbel [Trouble]”, in Visor trycka i år [Songs printed this year]:Nu stryker vinden genom trädens höga kronor, men i min trädgård är det visset, mörkt och kallt. Här är det risigt och förvuxet, fult och snårigt.- Now the wind sweeps through the high crowns of the trees, but in my garden, it is withered, dark, and cold. Here it is scrubby and overgrown, ugly and tangled .
- (figuratively) complicated, hard to survey (of for example a line of reasoning)
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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