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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]besatt
- simple past of besitte
- past participle of besette
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old Swedish besatter. But having the same meaning as Middle Low German besetten and German besessen, which are past participle of besitzen, Swedish besitta, just like Latin obsessus.
Participle
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Adjective
[edit]besatt
- obsessed
- Jag är besatt av deras kebabsås
- I'm obsessed with their kebab sauce
- possessed (by the Devil or a demon or the like), (and thereby) mad, crazy
- (nominalized) someone possessed, a maniac
- Han spelade som en besatt
- He played like a man possessed
Declension
[edit]Inflection of besatt | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | besatt | — | — |
Neuter singular | besatt | — | — |
Plural | besatta | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | besatte | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | besatte | — | — |
All | besatta | — | — |
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 |
Verb
[edit]besatt
- past indicative of besitta
- supine of besätta
References
[edit]- besatt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- besatt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- besatt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)