vanvettig

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish vanvita, equivalent to vanvett +‎ -ig. Compare Danish vanvittig and German wahnwitzig.

Adjective

vanvettig (comparative vanvettigare, superlative vanvettigast)

  1. insane, mad

Declension
Inflection of vanvettig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular vanvettig vanvettigare vanvettigast
Neuter singular vanvettigt vanvettigare vanvettigast
Plural vanvettiga vanvettigare vanvettigast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 vanvettige vanvettigare vanvettigaste
All vanvettiga vanvettigare vanvettigaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • vanvettighet

References
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