sammanbiten

Swedish

Etymology

From samman (“together”) +‎ biten (“bitten”), from having a grim facial expression with the mouth (firmly) shut.

Adjective

sammanbiten (not comparable)

  1. (of a person or mood or the like) grave, serious (due to dealing with something difficult), (often also) resolute
    Poliserna utanför dörren såg sammanbitna ut, och jag förstod att något hemskt hade hänt
    The officers outside my door looked grave and tense [together-bitten], and I understood that something terrible had happened
    De åtalade såg sammanbitna ut när inspelningen spelades upp
    The defendants looked ill at ease [serious and uncomfortable – together-bitten] when the recording was played back
    sammanbiten stämning
    grave atmosphere

Declension

Inflection of sammanbiten
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular sammanbiten — —
neuter singular sammanbitet — —
plural sammanbitna — —
masculine plural2 sammanbitne — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 sammanbitne — —
all sammanbitna — —

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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