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Aiwoo[edit]
Noun[edit]
läge
References[edit]
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
läge
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
läge n
- a position (same location/orientation duality as in English), a location
- Huset har ett bra läge
- The house is in a good location
- liggande läge
- lying position
- a situation, a state
- Hur är läget?
- What's up?
- gilla läget
- accept the situation
- världsläget
- the global situation
- an opportunity (from notion of an (implied good) situation)
- Han är helt ensam med målvakten. Vilket läge!
- He's completely alone with the goalie. What an opportunity!
- a (fishermen's) village
Usage notes[edit]
Idiomatic for something being in a good/bad/etc. location in (sense 1). Places more emphasis on the surroundings compared to position, in a similar way to "The house is in a good location" vs. "The house is in a good position."
Declension[edit]
Declension of läge | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | läge | läget | lägen | lägena |
Genitive | läges | lägets | lägens | lägenas |
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- läge in Svensk ordbok.
- läge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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- German terms with audio links
- German non-lemma forms
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- Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *legʰ-
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- Swedish terms with usage examples