backig

Swedish

Etymology

backe (“hill (slope)”) +‎ -ig (“-y”)

Adjective

backig (comparative backigare, superlative backigast)

  1. hilly (having many ups and downs, of a road (or the roads in an area) or the like)
    en backig väg
    a hilly road
    en backig stad
    a hilly city
    cykla tre backiga mil
    cycle thirty hilly kilometers

Declension

Inflection of backig
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular backig backigare backigast
neuter singular backigt backigare backigast
plural backiga backigare backigast
masculine plural2 backige backigare backigast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 backige backigare backigaste
all backiga backigare backigaste

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.

See also

  • kullig (“hilly in the sense of having many elevated landmasses”)

References

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