stöddig

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Swedish

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Adjective

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stöddig (comparative stöddigare, superlative stöddigast)

  1. (colloquial) overconfident and cocky
    En stöddig kille gick runt och muckade gräl med alla på festen
    An overconfident cocky guy was walking around picking fights with everyone at the party
    Jag borde spelat på en enklare svårighetsgrad. Jag blev stöddig.
    I should've played on an easier difficulty level. I was overconfident.
  2. (dated) big, strong, sturdy
    Han tog sig en stöddig ölHe had himself a big ("stout") glass of beer

Usage notes

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Has masculine connotations (perhaps stemming from (sense 2)), so mostly used about men and boys.

Declension

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Inflection of stöddig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular stöddig stöddigare stöddigast
Neuter singular stöddigt stöddigare stöddigast
Plural stöddiga stöddigare stöddigast
Masculine plural3 stöddige stöddigare stöddigast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 stöddige stöddigare stöddigaste
All stöddiga stöddigare stöddigaste
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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