gång
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "gang"
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish ganger, from Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gång c
- walking
- Efter en timmes gång kom de fram
- After an hour of walking, they arrived
- Om tusen gående personer går förbi så kommer man se mycket gång (gående is more idiomatic)
- If a thousand walking people walk by, you will see a lot of walking
- (uncountable) manner of walk, gait
- hans haltande gång
- his limping gait
- a path, a walkway (in a park or garden)
- an aisle (corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale)
- a passage, a corridor (tunnel-like passage or narrow corridor)
- underjordiska gångar
- underground passages
- en hemlig gång
- a secret passage
- (sports, uncountable) race walking
- (uncountable) the continuous running of something, such as a machinery or time
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gång | gångs |
| definite | gången | gångens | |
| plural | indefinite | gångar | gångars |
| definite | gångarna | gångarnas |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]gång c
- a time (occasion of a particular thing happening or being the case)
- Han gjorde det inte en gång, utan tre gånger
- He did it not once [one time], but three times
- En gång är ingen gång, två gånger en vana
- One time is no time, two times a habit
- Är det första gången du är här?
- Is this your first time here?
- (literally, “Is it the first time you are here?”)
- Nej, jag har varit här två gånger tidigare
- No, I have been here two times before
- Vi besökte museet två gånger. Ena gången gick vi, andra gången tog vi bussen.
- We visited the museum twice [two times]. [The] one time we walked, the other time we took the bus.
- Jag försökte en gång till, och den här gången gick det
- I tried once more [one more time], and this time [definite is used with "den här/där" (this/that)] it worked ["and this time it went" – compare "that won't go" in English]
- Det var en gång ett troll som bodde i en grotta
- Once upon a time, there was a troll who lived in a cave
- (literally, “There was once [one time] a troll who lived in a cave”)
- En gång i tiden var byn en idyllisk plats, men det var innan fabriken byggdes
- Once upon a time [one time in [the] time], the village was an idyllic place, but that was before the factory was built
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gång | gångs |
| definite | gången | gångens | |
| plural | indefinite | gånger | gångers |
| definite | gångerna | gångernas |
Derived terms
[edit]- det var en gång
- en gång för alla (“once and for all”)
- engångs-
- för en gångs skull (“for once”)
- gång efter annan
- gång på gång
- på en gång (“at once”)
- på gång
- på samma gång
- tredje gången gillt (“third time's the charm”)
See also
[edit]- gånger (“times (multiplied by)”)
References
[edit]- “gång”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “gång”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “gång”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- Svensk MeSH
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- Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰengʰ-
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
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- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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