galen

galen

1. inflection of galar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Borrowed from Spanish cadena.

galen

1. chain

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 94

From Old Norse galinn. Compare Swedish galen, Faroese galin and Norwegian Bokmål gal.

• gælen (gæ’ærn), gælin, gæren, gæærn (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /²ɡɑːlən/, /²ɡɑːɽən/

galen (neuter gale, definite singular and plural galne, comparative galnare, indefinite superlative galnast, definite superlative galnaste)

1. crazy, mad, insane
2. wrong, incorrect

• galnehus, galehus
• galning
• klingalen

From Old Norse gala.

galen (neuter gale, definite singular and plural galne)

1. past participle of gala

• “galen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

galen

1. past participle of galan

• IPA^(key): /²ɡɑːlɛn/

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galen

1. past participle of gala

From Old Swedish galin, from Old Norse galinn.

galen (comparative galnare, superlative galnast)

1. crazy, mad, insane (e.g. of a person or situation)

   Han är galen

   He is crazy

   Han blev galen av ilska

   He went crazy with anger

2. (with i (“in”)) crazy about (loving)

   Jag är galen i majs

   I'm crazy about corn

3. wrong, amiss

   Ojdå, det där blev lite galet

   Oops, that turned out a bit crazy

4. (gone) awry (not according to plan)

   Synonyms: fel, snett, på tok

   Det gick galet

   It went awry (turned out crazy)

Gå galet always means go awry, rather than go crazy; the latter is instead expressed as bli galen.

• tokig

• galen in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• galen in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• galen in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Engla, algen, galne, lagen, legan, nagel