bastant
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Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bastant m or f (masculine and feminine plural bastants)
Adverb
[edit]bastant
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]bastant
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
[edit]bastant m
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Romance language.
Adjective
[edit]bastant (comparative bastantare, superlative bastantast)
- big and sturdy
- (by extension) burly, stocky
- en bastant skogshuggare
- a burly lumberjack
- (by extension, of for example a meal) big, hearty
Usage notes
[edit]Similar varying sense extensions as could be expected from sturdy in English.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of bastant | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | bastant | bastantare | bastantast |
| Neuter singular | bastant | bastantare | bastantast |
| Plural | bastanta | bastantare | bastantast |
| Masculine plural3 | bastante | bastantare | bastantast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | bastante | bastantare | bastantaste |
| All | bastanta | bastantare | bastantaste |
| 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 | |||