passabel

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French passable.

Adjective

passabel

  1. acceptable, fair but not outstanding in any way

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French passable. By surface analysis, passieren +‎ -abel.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

passabel (strong nominative masculine singular passabler, comparative passabler, superlative am passabelsten)

  1. passable, acceptable, fair

Declension

Further reading

  • passabel” in Duden online
  • passabel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swedish

Adjective

passabel (not comparable)

  1. passable (acceptable, but not much more)
    Synonym: hjälplig

Declension

Inflection of passabel
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular passabel
neuter singular passabelt
plural passabla
masculine plural2 passable
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 passable
all passabla

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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