narrativ
Swedish
Etymology
From French narratif, cognate with English narrative, used in Swedish as an adjective since 1819, the noun much later, perhaps 1980s.
Adjective
narrativ (not comparable)
- narrative
- (grammar) inferential, renarrative; a verb mode
Declension
| Inflection of narrativ | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | narrativ | — | — |
| Neuter singular | narrativt | — | — |
| Plural | narrativa | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | narrative | — | — |
| All | narrativa | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. | |||
Noun
narrativ n
- a narrative, a story
Declension
| Declension of narrativ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | narrativ | narrativet | narrativ | narrativen |
| Genitive | narrativs | narrativets | narrativs | narrativens |
Related terms
- narratologi
References
- narrativ in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- narrativ in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.
- narrativ in Björn Collinder, Nya ordhandboken (1992)