handfallen

Swedish

Etymology

hand (“hand”) +‎ fallen (“fallen”)

Adjective

handfallen (comparative mer handfallen, superlative mest handfallen)

  1. helpless (to deal with something)
    Polisen står handfallen inför gängen
    The police are helpless to deal with the gangs

Declension

Inflection of handfallen
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular handfallen — —
neuter singular handfallet — —
plural handfallna — —
masculine plural2 handfallne — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 handfallne — —
all handfallna — —

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.

References

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