sekig
Swedish
Adjective
sekig (comparative sekigare, superlative sekigast)
- (regional, northern Sweden) (too) slow, boring
- Har de inte börjat packa än? Gud så sekiga de är.
- Haven't they started packing yet? God they're slow.
- Vilken sekig film! Vi kollar på nåt annat.
- What a slow and boring movie! Let's watch something else.
- (regional, northern Sweden) sad, tiring
- Sekigt att katten dog!
- It's sad that your cat died! (I'm sorry that your cat died!)
Usage notes
The sad sense in (sense 2) is from the notion of tiring (and slow to deal with).
Declension
| Inflection of sekig | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | sekig | sekigare | sekigast |
| Neuter singular | sekigt | sekigare | sekigast |
| Plural | sekiga | sekigare | sekigast |
| Masculine plural3 | sekige | sekigare | sekigast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | sekige | sekigare | sekigaste |
| All | sekiga | sekigare | sekigaste |
| 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 | |||
References
- sekig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)