lomhörd

Swedish

Adjective

lomhörd (not comparable)

  1. hard of hearing
    Farfar är lite lomhörd, så man får tala högt
    Grandpa is a bit hard of hearing, so you have to speak loudly [so one may speak loudly]
  2. having temporary hearing loss (due to exposure to loud sounds or the like)
  3. (figuratively) deaf (not listening to or heeding something)
    lomhörd inför kritik
    deaf to criticism

Declension

Inflection of lomhörd
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular lomhörd
Neuter singular lomhört
Plural lomhörda
Masculine plural3 lomhörde
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 lomhörde
All lomhörda
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

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