backig

Swedish

Etymology

backe (“hill (slope)”) +‎ -ig (“-y”)

Adjective

backig (comparative backigare, superlative backigast)

  1. hilly (having many ups and downs, of a road (or the roads in an area) or the like)
    en backig väg
    a hilly road
    en backig stad
    a hilly city
    cykla tre backiga mil
    cycle thirty hilly kilometers

Declension
Inflection of backig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular backig backigare backigast
Neuter singular backigt backigare backigast
Plural backiga backigare backigast
Masculine plural3 backige backigare backigast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 backige backigare backigaste
All backiga backigare backigaste
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

See also
  • kullig (“hilly in the sense of having many elevated landmasses”)

References
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