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Swedish
Etymology
åt + färd, cognate with Icelandic átferð
Noun
åtfärd c
- (dated) behaviour, appearance, manner
Det må nu vara det, men det låg också något avgjort svenskt i vår hjältes hela åtfärd.- That may be, but there was also something definitely Swedish in all of our hero's manners.
Usage notes
- One author (Olof Högberg) uses the combination "framfärd och åtfärd", which sounds as if this word meant return journey (journeys back and forth). That could be a mistake by that single author. A more common word for return journey is återfärd.
Declension
References
- Åtfärd in F.A. Dahlgren, Glossarium öfver föråldrade eller ovanliga ord och talesätt (1914–1916)
- Åtfärd in Björn Collinder, Nya ordhandboken (1992)
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