-årig
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See also: árig
Suffix
-årig (neuter -årigt, e-form -årige)
- aged a specified number of years
- den treårige dreng – the three-year-old boy
- of a duration of the specified number of years
- en syvårig periode – a seven-year period
Etymology
From år (“year”) and -ig. Similar to Danish and Swedish (if not borrowed from one of them).
Suffix
-årig (plural -årige)
Etymology
Suffix
-årig
- aged the specified number of years, year-old
- en sjuttioårig man är en sjuttioåring
- a seventy-year-old man is a seventy-year-old
- lasting the specified number of years, year
- ett femårigt krig
- a five-year war
Declension
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
Derived terms
See also
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