sluttning

Swedish

Huset är byggt i en sluttning [The house is built on a slope]

Etymology

slutta (“slope (downwards)”) +‎ -ning (“-ing”)

Noun

sluttning c

1. an area of sloping ground; a slope, a hillside

   Synonym: (loosely) backe

   kullens sluttning

   the side of the hill / the hillside

Usage notes

• Intuitively, backe puts more emphasis on the slope (possibly) being part of a path or traversed, while a sluttning is an area of sloping ground more generally. This makes backe the natural word for a ski slope (skidbacke), for example, where "skidsluttning" sounds more like "ski incline." Native speakers might sometimes use backe where sluttning would be more idiomatic according to this intuition.
• Lutning is usually more idiomatic when talking about degree of slope, though sluttning appears as well (for downward slope – see slutta, from which sluttning would intuitively be derived in this case).

Declension

Declension of sluttning

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sluttning	sluttnings
	definite	sluttningen	sluttningens
plural	indefinite	sluttningar	sluttningars
	definite	sluttningarna	sluttningarnas

Derived terms

• bergssluttning

Related terms

• slutta

See also

• backe
• brant
• lutning
• slänt

References

• “sluttning”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sluttning”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)