öppenhjärtig
Swedish
Alternative forms
- öppenhjärtlig (informal, proscribed)
Etymology
From öppen + hjärta + -ig; a calque of German offenherzig.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²œpɛnˌjɛrtɪ(ɡ)/
Adjective
öppenhjärtig (comparative öppenhjärtigare, superlative öppenhjärtigast)
Usage notes
- An informal variant is öppenhjärtlig, usually proscribed by normative sources. This variant probably arose due to analogy with hjärtlig (“cordial, hearty”).
Declension
| Inflection of öppenhjärtig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | öppenhjärtig | öppenhjärtigare | öppenhjärtigast |
| Neuter singular | öppenhjärtigt | öppenhjärtigare | öppenhjärtigast |
| Plural | öppenhjärtiga | öppenhjärtigare | öppenhjärtigast |
| Masculine plural3 | öppenhjärtige | öppenhjärtigare | öppenhjärtigast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | öppenhjärtige | öppenhjärtigare | öppenhjärtigaste |
| All | öppenhjärtiga | öppenhjärtigare | öppenhjärtigaste |
| 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 | |||
References
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