tåriga

Tåriga is a Swedish adjective meaning tearful or full of tears. It is used to describe people, eyes, faces, or scenes that are characterized by tears or crying.

In ordinary usage, tåriga is the form that appears before plural nouns. Examples include phrases like tåriga ögon (tearful eyes) and tåriga kinder (tear-streaked cheeks). The corresponding definite plural would be de tåriga ögonen (the tearful eyes). For singular references, the adjective inflects to fit gender and number: en tårig kvinna (a tearful woman) and ett tårigt ansikte (a tearful face), illustrating how the form changes with grammatical gender and number.

Etymology and related forms: tåriga derives from the Swedish root tår, meaning tear, with the common suffix -ig that forms adjectives meaning “producing or characterized by.” The related noun tårar means tears, and tårig is the base singular form used before singular nouns in non-plural contexts.

Usage notes: tårig is a relatively common descriptive term in literature and journalism when describing emotional expressions or scenes involving crying. It can carry a neutral or emotionally evocative tone depending on context, and is often contrasted with synonyms such as gråtande (crying) or sorgsen (sorrowful).

See also: tårig, tårar, ögon, ansikte.