skaplig

Swedish

Etymology

skapa + -lig

Adjective

skaplig

  1. pretty good, decent
    Hon är en skaplig violinist
    She's a decent violinist
    Stenen landade en meter från oss. Vi hade skaplig tur.
    The rock landed a meter from us. We had pretty good luck.

Usage notes

Sometimes stronger by ironic extension, similar to the last example.

Declension

Inflection of skaplig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular skaplig
Neuter singular skapligt
Plural skapliga
Masculine plural3 skaplige
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 skaplige
All skapliga
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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