sammanbiten

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From samman (together) +‎ biten (bitten), from having a grim facial expression with the mouth (firmly) shut.

Adjective

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sammanbiten (not comparable)

  1. (of a person or mood or the like) grave, serious (due to dealing with something difficult), (often also) resolute

Declension

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Inflection of sammanbiten
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular sammanbiten
Neuter singular sammanbitet
Plural sammanbitna
Masculine plural3 sammanbitne
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 sammanbitne
All sammanbitna
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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