teutonisk

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of teuton (“Teuton”) +‎ -isk (“-ic”).

Adjective

teutonisk

  1. Teutonic
    • 1872, Louisa May Alcott, anonymous translator, Våra vänner från i fjor [Little Women], page 340:
      Lik en rask teutonisk riddare gick professorn upp och ned i de gröna gångarne, hållande i handen en stång i stället för lans och anförande gossarne, hvilka gjorde sig till ett gymnastiserande akrobatsällskap […]
      Like a dashing Teutonic knight, the professor strode up and down the green corridors, holding in his hand a rod instead of a lance, and charged the boys, who made themselves into a gymnastic acrobat company […]

Declension
Inflection of teutonisk
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular teutonisk mer teutonisk mest teutonisk
Neuter singular teutoniskt mer teutoniskt mest teutoniskt
Plural teutoniska mer teutoniska mest teutoniska
Masculine plural3 teutoniske mer teutoniska mest teutoniska
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 teutoniske mer teutoniske mest teutoniske
All teutoniska mer teutoniska mest teutoniska
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

References
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