Adjective: ful
Hyphenation:
Definite Forms
Singular Masculine
fule
All Other Forms
fula
Comparison Forms
Comparative
| Indefinite | fulare |
| Definite | fulare |
Superlative
| Indefinite | fulast |
| Definite | fulaste |
Perifrastic Comparison Forms
Sample Sentences
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Jag blir äldre och mindre attraktiv. Rent ut sagt fulare. Åren går så fort att jag har svårt att följa med. Jag byter punkfrisyr mot munkfrisyr och ansiktet det skrynklar ihop sig, men mina egocentriska behov, de kvarstår år efter år. (I'm getting older and less attractive. Uglier, to put it bluntly. The years go by so fast that I have a hard time keeping up. I exchange punk hairdo for monk hairdo and my face [it – redundant] crumples up, but my egocentric needs, they remain year after year.) [1994, “Älska mig [Love Me]”, in Sanningens morgon [The Morning of Truth], performed by Köttgrottorna:]
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Det var den fulaste unge jag någonsin sett (That's the ugliest kid I've ever seen)
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en ful melodi (an ugly melody)
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ett fult knep (a dirty trick)
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Larsson gjorde en riktigt ful tackling (Larsson pulled off a really dirty tackle)
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ett fult ord (a bad word)
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2000, Mikael Niemi, Populärmusik från Vittula p. 35; English translation by Laurie Thompson: Popular Music from Vittula (2003), p. 36.
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Hukande tassade han fram till predikstolen, en skygg liten gosse med fulsnaggat hår. (Shoulders hunched, he tip-toed toward the pulpit, a bashful little boy with an awful haircut.)
Adjectives inflected like ful
ordfattig,
sjövärdig,
syndig,
synlig,
urmodig,
syrlig,
snövit,
snörik,
snårig,
snäsig,
seriös,
sedlig,
snuvig,
snusig,
snipig,
snorig,
saftig,
sandig,
saklig,
definitiv, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz. Compare English foul, Dutch vuil, German faul. See: English Adjectives '
foul', Dutch Adjectives '
vuil', German Adjectives '
faul'.
Verbs referencing "ful"
English Adjectives
foul, German Adjectives
faul, Dutch Adjectives
vuil.
Translations