omständlig
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Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- omständig (sometimes proscribed)
Etymology
[edit]From German umständlich.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]omständlig (comparative omständligare, superlative omständligast)
- not simple, brief, and straightforward; tedious, cumbersome, laborious, lengthy, complex, etc.
- en omständlig ansökningsprocess
- a tedious application process
- en omständlig beskrivning
- a long-winded description
- omständlig manuell hantering
- tedious manual management
Usage notes
[edit]A more common, sometimes proscribed variant is omständig, which might have arisen by analogy with other words ending in -ständig, e.g. självständig. Compare also omständighet (“circumstance”).
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of omständlig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | omständlig | omständligare | omständligast |
| Neuter singular | omständligt | omständligare | omständligast |
| Plural | omständliga | omständligare | omständligast |
| Masculine plural3 | omständlige | omständligare | omständligast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | omständlige | omständligare | omständligaste |
| All | omständliga | omständligare | omständligaste |
| 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 | |||