selvforståelig

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Danish

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Etymology

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selv (self) +‎ forståelig (understandable)

Adjective

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selvforståelig (neuter selvforståeligt, plural and definite singular attributive selvforståelige)

  1. self-evident; not requiring any additional evidence
    • 2019, Vilhelm Grønbech, Vor folkeæt i oldtiden: Lykkemand og niding, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
      Så selvfølgelig, så selvforståelig er dens myndighed, at loven så at sige ikke bliver sig den bevidst før den begynder at føle sig i opposition til den.
      So matter-of-course, so self-evident is its authority, that the law does not, so to speak, become aware of it before it begins to feel itself being in opposition to it.
    • 1917, Vilhelm La Cour, Stemninger og standpunkter under krigen 64, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
      Hvis vi havde vundet noget ved Kampen, vilde denne Vinding jo ikke svinde bort, fordi man søgte nærmere at bestemme den; den vilde kun lyse endnu mere selvforståelig for de mange.
      If we had gained anything by the battle, this gain would not vanish because one sought to more closely determine it; it would only shine all the more self-evident to the many.
    • 1891, Christen Brun, Rationalismen i Dens Historiske Sammenhaeng Med Det Attende Aarhundredes Oplysning:
      Guds tilværelse er meget mere for dem en selvforståelig forudsætning, hvis gyldighed er givet i og med den sunde menneskeforstands vidnesbyrd.
      God's existence is much more for them a self-evident presupposition, whose validity is given by virtue of the testimony of healthy human reason.