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Swedish
Etymology
From ton (“tone”) + döv (“deaf”).
Adjective
tondöv (not comparable)
- tone-deaf (when it comes to tones or being unwittingly offensive)
Declension
| Inflection of tondöv
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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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tondöv
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| Neuter singular
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tondövt
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| Plural
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tondöva
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| Masculine plural3
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tondöve
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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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tondöve
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| All
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tondöva
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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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