dröjsmål
Swedish
Etymology
From dröja + -s- + mål.
Noun
dröjsmål n
- a delay
Usage notes
- Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden.
Declension
| Declension of dröjsmål | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | dröjsmål | dröjsmålet | dröjsmål | dröjsmålen |
| Genitive | dröjsmåls | dröjsmålets | dröjsmåls | dröjsmålens |