rökruta
Swedish
editEtymology
editröka (“to smoke”) + ruta (“box, square”), introduced in the 1970s (or 1960s?), banned in Sweden on July 1, 1994, but largely abandoned in the late 1980s.
Noun
editrökruta c
- a smoking area of a schoolyard
Declension
editDeclension of rökruta | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | rökruta | rökrutan | rökrutor | rökrutorna |
Genitive | rökrutas | rökrutans | rökrutors | rökrutornas |
References
edit- rökruta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- rökruta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)