bindgalen
Swedish
Etymology
binda (“tie up”) + galen (“mad”), probably due to the historical practice of restraining certain mentally ill people by tying them up. Compare Danish bindegal and French fou à lier.
Declension
| Inflection of bindgalen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | bindgalen | — | — |
| Neuter singular | bindgalet | — | — |
| Plural | bindgalna | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | bindgalne | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | bindgalne | — | — |
| All | bindgalna | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
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