ABSTRACT
Swedish adjectives inflect. In the indefinite declension they agree with the noun in gender and in number both attributively and predicatively. They also add inflexional endings in the definite declension. An alternative form of the adjective, in -e, is sometimes found in the definite singular before non-neuter nouns that clearly indicate a male person. The definite ending in -e also occurs, as a compulsory form, on the adjective ending in -ad, superlative in -ast. The definite noun phrase (i.e. definite premodifier + adjective + noun) usually expresses something specific. This is the basic type of definite construction. When an adjectival expression becomes a proper noun and the adjective loses its stress. As in English, deletion of the noun is common in Swedish in the plural definite.
