purken
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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]purken m or f
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in 1843.[1]
Adjective
[edit]purken (comparative purknare, superlative purknast)
- (colloquial) grumpy, displeased (due to some perceived injustice)
- 2019 January 31, Hasse Gänger, “Leif GW Persson: Jag har skonat många i min nya bok [Leif GW Persson: I have spared many in my new book.]”, in Allas:
- Jag blir förstås lite purken när vissa påstår att jag har varit lat.
- I naturally get a bit upset when some claim that I've been lazy.
- (dialect, obsolete) miserable, poor
Declension
[edit]Inflection of purken | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | purken | purknare | purknast |
Neuter singular | purket | purknare | purknast |
Plural | purkna | purknare | purknast |
Masculine plural3 | purkne | purknare | purknast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | purkne | purknare | purknaste |
All | purkna | purknare | purknaste |
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 |
Synonyms
[edit](grumpy, displeased):
References
[edit]- purken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- purken in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- purken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)