bakåtsträvare

Swedish

From bakåt (“backwards”) +‎ sträva (“strive”) +‎ -are (“-er”).

bakåtsträvare c

someone habitually opposed to (e.g. societal or technological) change, perhaps also wanting to see some changes that have already been made rolled back; a reactionary, a Luddite
Kalla mig bakåtsträvare om ni vill, men allt var bättre förr
Call me a Luddite if you want, but everything was better in the past

Declension of bakåtsträvare
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bakåtsträvare	bakåtsträvaren	bakåtsträvare	bakåtsträvarna
Genitive	bakåtsträvares	bakåtsträvarens	bakåtsträvares	bakåtsträvarnas

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