ansvarsfull

Swedish

Etymology

ansvar +‎ -s- +‎ -full

Adjective

ansvarsfull (comparative ansvarsfullare, superlative ansvarsfullast)

1. responsible (behaving properly and sensibly without needing to be supervised)

   Antonym: ansvarslös

Usage notes

Not used in other senses of responsible, such as "being the cause of an event", which is instead ansvarig.

Declension

Inflection of ansvarsfull

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	ansvarsfull	ansvarsfullare	ansvarsfullast
neuter singular	ansvarsfullt	ansvarsfullare	ansvarsfullast
plural	ansvarsfulla	ansvarsfullare	ansvarsfullast
masculine plural2	ansvarsfulle	ansvarsfullare	ansvarsfullast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	ansvarsfulle	ansvarsfullare	ansvarsfullaste
all	ansvarsfulla	ansvarsfullare	ansvarsfullaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

• ansvarsfullhet

Further reading

• “ansvarsfull”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “ansvarsfull”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “ansvarsfull”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)