sekig

Swedish

Adjective

sekig (comparative sekigare, superlative sekigast)

  1. (regional, northern Sweden) (too) slow, boring
    Har de inte börjat packa än? Gud så sekiga de är.
    Haven't they started packing yet? God they're slow.
    Vilken sekig film! Vi kollar på nåt annat.
    What a slow and boring movie! Let's watch something else.
  2. (regional, northern Sweden) sad, tiring
    Sekigt att katten dog!
    It's sad that your cat died! (I'm sorry that your cat died!)

Usage notes

The sad sense in (sense 2) is from the notion of tiring (and slow to deal with).

Declension
Inflection of sekig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular sekig sekigare sekigast
Neuter singular sekigt sekigare sekigast
Plural sekiga sekigare sekigast
Masculine plural3 sekige sekigare sekigast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 sekige sekigare sekigaste
All sekiga sekigare sekigaste
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

References
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