finurlig
Swedish
Adjective
finurlig (comparative finurligare, superlative finurligast)
- (of a person) inclined to come up with fairly nifty solutions to (practical) problems; clever, resourceful, shrewd
- clever, nifty, shrewd
- En finurlig man med många finurliga lösningar ― A shrewd man with many nifty solutions
- Finurlig humor ― Shrewd humor
Usage notes
Also has undertones of being a bit quirky, though not necessarily in a negative way.
Declension
| Inflection of finurlig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | finurlig | finurligare | finurligast |
| Neuter singular | finurligt | finurligare | finurligast |
| Plural | finurliga | finurligare | finurligast |
| Masculine plural3 | finurlige | finurligare | finurligast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | finurlige | finurligare | finurligaste |
| All | finurliga | finurligare | finurligaste |
| 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 | |||
Synonyms
- fiffig
References
- finurlig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- finurlig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- finurlig in Svensk ordbok (SO)