-årig

See also: árig

Danish

Suffix

-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

Etymology

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

Suffix

-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

Etymology

år (“year”) +‎ -ig (“-y”)

Suffix

-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
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
Swedish terms suffixed with -årig

See also

References
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