knaper

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Swedish

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Adjective

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knaper (comparative knaprare, superlative knaprast)

  1. scanty, meager
    Vi har det knapert
    We're on hard times ("have it scantily")
    en knaper måltid
    a scanty meal

Declension

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Inflection of knaper
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular knaper knaprare knaprast
Neuter singular knapert knaprare knaprast
Plural knapra knaprare knaprast
Masculine plural3 knapre knaprare knaprast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 knapre knaprare knapraste
All knapra knaprare knapraste
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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