läge
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
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Verb edit
läge
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.
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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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | läge | läget | lägen | lägena |
| Genitive | läges | lägets | lägens | lägenas |
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Further reading edit
- läge in Svensk ordbok.
- läge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)