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Yes. Translates nearly perfectly into German "farbenfroh", if it actually carries the positive connotation...
We are very inspired by the German language :). By the way, the very first German word I learnt in 7th grade was "bunt".
Is this a general meaning of the suffix "glad" ? I.e.: are there others swedish adjectives in which the suffix "glad" has the same meaning and is equivalent to the english suffix "ful" ? Thanks ...
Is this a general meaning of the suffix "glad" ? I.e.: are there others swedish adjectives in which the suffix "glad" has the same meaning and is equivalent to the english suffix "ful" ? Thanks ...
and the attributive adjective for ett-nouns is färgglatt, if anyone (like me) was wondering.
Can someone kindly explain the difference between färgglad, färgrik and färgstark? Tack :)
I would say that Färgstark is mostly used figuratively about a person that is very... charismatic or something like that.
Färgglad is mostly literally about something with lively and often very different colors, but need not be many.
Färgrik is mostly literally about something with many colors, but need not be as lively.
Others may have slightly different interpretation, and dictionaries are not super specific about it.
So it seems like in english you can say someone is "colorful" if they're wearing any bright color, be it one color or many (färgglad).
what is the difference between writing "hennes bok är färgglad" and "sin bok är färgglad"? I know that hennes refers to someone else's book and sin to her own book but I cannot make out the kontext someone would say "hennes bok är färgglad". Can you please help me with an example?
The use of "sin" requires that the sentence has a subject since it always reflects back to the subject. Therefore "Sin bok är färgglad" is incorrect. You can simply not say that.
Hennes bok är färgglad is the only correct translation.
If the sentence had a subject, you would have used "sin".
Hon läser sin färgglada bok - She is reading her (own) colorful book
The plural form of the adjective (with the -a ending) is used with the definite form of the noun and with possessives (here "sin"):
en färgglad bok
två färgglada böcker
den färgglada boken
min färgglada bok etc
'Färgglad' have both meanings of colorful, doesn't it? 1-"Having much or varied color; bright", 2- "full of interest; lively and exciting"?
So "färgglad" is translating to "GAY" in google translate... Is there some reason for this?
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Nowadays 'gay' usually means 'homosexual', but in classic standard English it means 'colorful' or 'happy'.
So in färgglad, the first g is soft and the second one is hard? Are double g's always like this, or is it because it's a compound word?
It's because it is a compound word and the pronunciation rules for "färg" and "glad" respectively.
"Hennes" is a possessive pronoun and normally a possessive pronoun differs between singular and plural (e.g. min hund, mina hundar), but for hennes (her), hans (his) and deras (their), it's the same.
hon = she: "Hon har en bok" (She has a book)
henne = her (object): "Vi ger henne en bok" (We give her a book)
hennes = her (possessive): "Hennes bok är färgglad" (Her book is colourful) or "Hennes böcker är färgglada" (Her books are colourful)
It really irritates me when a red squiggly line appears under "colourful"!
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Context.
In this exercise, the word is not "färg" but "färgglad", which means "colorful". The word for "painted" is "målad".
If you are translating from Swedish and you jot down "I went to the store and bought a can of color", you might want to change it to "can of paint". Context!
