läge

See also: lage, Lage, lagë, låge, and læge

Äiwoo

Noun

läge

(anatomy) skin

References

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

Pronunciation

Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Verb

läge

first/third-person singular subjunctive II of liegen

Swedish

Alternative forms

laͤge (obsolete typography)

Etymology

Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

läge n

a position (same location/orientation duality as in English); a location, a site
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?
(literally, “How is the situation/state?”)

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!
short for fiskeläge

Usage notes

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

Declension of **läge**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	läge	läges
singular	definite	läget	lägets
plural	indefinite	lägen	lägens
plural	definite	lägena	lägenas

Derived terms

References

“läge”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
“läge”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
“läge”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
läge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)