oförskylld

Swedish

Adjective

oförskylld (not comparable)

  1. (often in adverbial usage) that someone (or something, figuratively) has to endure through no fault of their own
    Rörmokaren hade oförskyllt tagit livet av en kunds hamster genom att trampa på den när han steg in genom dörren
    The plumber had – through no fault of his own – killed a customer's hamster by stepping on it as he walked in the door

Declension

Inflection of oförskylld
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular oförskylld — —
neuter singular oförskyllt — —
plural oförskyllda — —
masculine plural2 oförskyllde — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 oförskyllde — —
all oförskyllda — —

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.

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