vilkårlig

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Danish

Adjective

vilkårlig

  1. arbitrary
    • 2014, Gunnar Bomann, TAL OG ALGEBRA med historisk tilgang: Bog 3 Talområder, deres historie og konstruktion, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 128:
      Lad α og β være vilkårlige reelle tal, ...
      Let α and β be arbitrary real numbers, ...
    • 2015, Anne Elisabeth Sejten, Anledninger til æstetik: Kunst, intellekt og subjektivitet i Paul Valérys lejlighedsværk, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 397:
      ... hvilket også er at ville tage det vilkårlige i ordets dobbelte forstand af betingelse og tilfældighed alvorligt ...
      ... which is also to be willing to take arbitrariness in the twofold sense of condition and randomness seriously ...
    • 2011, Jakob Skov, Det brændende engagement: Videnmedarbejderen mellem performancemåling og fællesskab, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
      Hvor Gemeinschaft selv er mål for væsensviljen, har Gesellschafts vilje – den vilkårlige vilje – sit mål uden for Gesellschaft selv.
      Where Gemeinschaft is itself a goal for the essence-will, the will of Gesellschaft - the arbitrary will - has its goal outside Gesellschaft itself.

Inflection

Inflection of vilkårlig
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular vilkårlig — —2
Indefinite neuter singular vilkårligt — —2
Plural vilkårlige — —2
Definite attributive1 vilkårlige — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Synonyms

Adverb

vilkårlig

  1. arbitrarily (when not used to denote manner)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

After German willkürlich

Adjective

vilkårlig (neuter singular vilkårlig, definite singular and plural vilkårlige)

  1. arbitrary, high-handed, random

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