Adjective: pikant
Hyphenation:
Definite Forms
Singular Masculine
pikante
All Other Forms
pikanta
Comparison Forms
Comparative
| Indefinite | pikantare |
| Definite | pikantare |
Superlative
| Indefinite | pikantast |
| Definite | pikantaste |
Perifrastic Comparison Forms
Sample Sentences
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["Person" is pronounced like the last name "Persson" in this song] Personliga Person satt en morgon vid frukostbordet och läste i morgonbladet att det senaste lustmordet bjöd på en mängd pikanta detaljer. Mördaren hade använt vissa attiraljer. Dessa nämndes i bladet, och det var ju bra det. (Personal Person sat one morning at the breakfast table and read in the morning paper that the latest lust murder offered a range of piquant details. The killer had used certain paraphernalia. These were mentioned in the paper, and that's good [literally, "and that was good," or – see ju – "and yeah, that was good," "and that was good, of course," or the like].) [1968, Cornelis Vreeswijk, “Personliga Person [Personal Person]”, in Tio vackra visor och Personliga Person [Ten beautiful songs and Personal Person]:]
Adjectives inflected like pikant
schyst,
skärpt,
vildsint,
intolerant,
charmant,
bastant,
hårdkokt,
hårdhänt,
dansant,
ljushyllt,
släpphänt,
distinkt,
slapphänt,
delikat,
försynt,
introvert,
schysst,
kompetent,
proppmätt,
tolerant, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from French piquant. See: French Adjectives '
piquant'.
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