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helskinnad

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Swedish

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Etymology

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hel (whole) +‎ skinnad (skinned)

Adjective

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helskinnad (not comparable)

  1. unscathed, unharmed
    Hon klarade sig helskinnad från mötet med björnen
    She escaped the encounter with the bear unscathed
    Gävlebocken klarade sig helskinnad 2022
    The Gävle goat survived unscathed in 2022
    Politikern klarade sig helskinnad genom presskonferensen
    The politician made it through the press conference unscathed (figurative)

Declension

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Inflection of helskinnad
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular helskinnad
neuter singular helskinnat
plural helskinnade
masculine plural2 helskinnade
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 helskinnade
all helskinnade

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.

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