-årig

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Danish

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Suffix

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-årig (neuter -årigt, e-form -årige)

  1. aged a specified number of years
    den treårige dreng – the three-year-old boy
  2. of a duration of the specified number of years
    en syvårig periode – a seven-year period

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From år (year) and -ig. Similar to Danish and Swedish (if not borrowed from one of them).

Suffix

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-årig (plural -årige)

  1. aged the specified number of years, year-old
  2. lasting the specified number of years, -year
    Eittårig plante
    Annual plant

Swedish

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Etymology

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år (year) +‎ -ig (-y)

Suffix

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-årig

  1. aged the specified number of years, year-old
    en sjuttioårig man är en sjuttioåring
    a seventy-year-old man is a seventy-year-old
  2. lasting the specified number of years, year
    ett femårigt krig
    a five-year war

Declension

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Inflection of -årig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular -årig
Neuter singular -årigt
Plural -åriga
Masculine plural3 -årige
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 -årige
All -åriga
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

Derived terms

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