slankare

Slankare is a Swedish adjective in the comparative form of slank, meaning slender or slim. In modern Swedish, more common terms for describing slenderness are smal or tunn, while slank and its comparative form slankare appear primarily in older texts, poetry, or regional varieties. The word is used when comparing two or more subjects with respect to their slenderness.

In typical usage, slankare functions as an ordinary attributive or predicative adjective. Examples in plain language would express that one subject is more slender than another. Because Swedish adjectives agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify, the form slankare remains the same across standard singular and plural references, with agreement handled by the surrounding noun.

Etymology notes that slank derives from older Germanic roots meaning slender, and the productive comparative suffix -are is a common pattern in Swedish for forming adjectives that describe a higher degree of a quality. Today, however, slankare is uncommon in everyday speech and writing, where smalare or tunnare are more frequently used to convey a similar idea.

See also: slank, smal, tunn, tunnare, smalare.