förtvivlad
Swedish
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Adjective
förtvivlad (comparative mer förtvivlad, superlative mest förtvivlad)
- very upset and feeling powerless; despairing, desperate, devastated, distraught
- De skeppsbrutna blev förtvivlade när det stod klart att båten inte sett dom
- The shipwrecked men were devastated when it became clear that the boat hadn't spotted them
- en förtvivlad mamma som inte kan hitta sitt barn
- a desperate mother who can't find her child
- Hon har varit helt förtvivlad sen katten blev överkörd
- She's been completely devastated since her cat got run over
- (of an act or situation or the like) desperate
- ett sista förtvivlat försök
- a last desperate attempt
- en förtvivlad situation
- a desperate situation
Usage notes
Also of situations where there actually is no hope, like in the cat example.
Declension
| Inflection of förtvivlad | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | förtvivlad | — | — |
| Neuter singular | förtvivlat | — | — |
| Plural | förtvivlade | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | förtvivlade | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | förtvivlade | — | — |
| All | förtvivlade | — | — |
| 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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