knaper

Swedish

Adjective

knaper (comparative knaprare, superlative knaprast)

  1. scanty, meager
    Vi har det knapert
    We're on hard times ("have it scantily")
    en knaper måltid
    a scanty meal

Declension

Inflection of knaper
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular knaper knaprare knaprast
neuter singular knapert knaprare knaprast
plural knapra knaprare knaprast
masculine plural2 knapre knaprare knaprast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 knapre knaprare knapraste
all knapra knaprare knapraste

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.

References

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