tacksam
Swedish
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tacksam (comparative tacksammare, superlative tacksammast)
- grateful
- Prinsen var mycket tacksam gentemot prinsessan som räddat hans liv.
- The prince was very grateful towards the princess who had saved his life.
- Antonym: otacksam
- Prinsen var mycket tacksam gentemot prinsessan som räddat hans liv.
- Giving results with little effort; rewarding
- 2023 May 26, “Kokainets väg till Sverige”, in SVT Nyheter, retrieved 2023-05-27:
- Bananer fraktas i kylcontainrar som har mycket tjockare väggar, och det gör att de är väldigt tacksamma att gömma kokainet i.
- Bananas are shipped in chilled containers which have much thicker walls, and this makes them very rewarding to hide cocaine in.
Inflection
| Inflection of tacksam | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | tacksam | tacksammare | tacksammast |
| Neuter singular | tacksamt | tacksammare | tacksammast |
| Plural | tacksamma | tacksammare | tacksammast |
| Masculine plural3 | tacksamme | tacksammare | tacksammast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | tacksamme | tacksammare | tacksammaste |
| All | tacksamma | tacksammare | tacksammaste |
| 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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- tacksam in Svensk ordbok.
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