sniken

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Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish snīkin, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną. Related to snika and English sneak. Despite superficially having the form of a past participle, originally it was rather suffixed with an adjectival ending meaning "inclined to". Compare with the adjectives fiken, riven, sticken.

Adjective

sniken (comparative sniknare, superlative sniknast)

  1. stingy, ungenerous

Declension

Inflection of sniken
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular sniken sniknare sniknast
Neuter singular sniket sniknare sniknast
Plural snikna sniknare sniknast
Masculine plural3 snikne sniknare sniknast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 snikne sniknare sniknaste
All snikna sniknare sniknaste
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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