backig

Swedish

Etymology

backe (“hill (slope)”) +‎ -ig (“-y”)

Adjective

backig (comparative backigare, superlative backigast)

1. hilly (having many ups and downs, of a road (or the roads in an area) or the like)

   en backig väg

   a hilly road

   en backig stad

   a hilly city

   cykla tre backiga mil

   cycle thirty hilly kilometers

Declension

Inflection of backig

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	backig	backigare	backigast
neuter singular	backigt	backigare	backigast
plural	backiga	backigare	backigast
masculine plural2	backige	backigare	backigast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	backige	backigare	backigaste
all	backiga	backigare	backigaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

See also

• kullig (“hilly in the sense of having many elevated landmasses”)

References

• backig in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• backig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)