belägen
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Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Swedish belæghin, from Middle Low German belegen, the past participle of Middle Low German beliggen.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
belägen
Usage notes[edit]
- Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of belägen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | belägen | — | — |
| Neuter singular | beläget | — | — |
| Plural | belägna | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | belägne | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | belägne | — | — |
| All | belägna | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- belägen in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- belägen in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- belägen in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)