femårig

Femårig is a Swedish adjective meaning five years old. It is used to describe a person or thing that has reached the age of five. The term is formed from fem (five) and år (year) with the adjectival suffix -ig, and can be used attributively or predicatively. In addition to the adjective, the related noun femåring refers to a five-year-old person.

Grammar and examples: Adjectives in Swedish agree with the gender and number of the noun they modify. Examples include en femårig pojke (a five-year-old boy) and ett femårigt barn (a five-year-old child). Plural indefinite forms are femåriga, as in femåriga barn or femåriga pojkar. Definite forms are den femårige pojken, det femåriga barnet, and de femåriga pojkarna.

Noun usage and forms: The common noun femåring is widely used to denote a five-year-old person, with plural femåringar. Example: En femåring började förskolan. De femåringarna är i första klass. The noun is typically used for children, while the adjective femårig/femårigt/femåriga describes age when paired with a noun.

Usage notes: The term is standard in everyday language, education, healthcare, and demographic contexts. Similar age-based formations exist for other ages (till exempel sjuåring, fyrtiotvååring). In formal statistics, age is often expressed in years rather than the compound adjective, e.g., five years old or five-year-olds in prose.