sväng
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sväng c
- a turn (especially by a vehicle)
- bilens sväng
- the turn made by the car
- a turn, a bend (in a road)
- Bilen körde in i en sväng
- The car went into a turn
- (colloquial) a walk, a trip (often a more leisurely one)
- Jag ska ut och gå en sväng
- I'm gonna go for a walk ("go out and walk a turn")
- Jag ska ta en sväng till affären
- I'm gonna take a trip to the store
- (colloquial) an area (of work or the like)
- Han är i kodarsvängen
- He's in the coding business ("the coder turn")
- (colloquial) an instance of dancing
- Ska vi ta oss en sväng?
- Should we have a "turn"?
- (in "ta ut svängarna") to let loose (a bit), to go (a bit) wild (break conventions, etc., literally "take out the turns," meaning to do wide turns)
Declension edit
| Declension of sväng | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | sväng | svängen | svängar | svängarna |
| Genitive | svängs | svängens | svängars | svängarnas |
Noun edit
sväng n
- (colloquial) groove, swing (as a property of music)
Declension edit
| Declension of sväng | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | sväng | svänget | — | — |
| Genitive | svängs | svängets | — | — |
Related terms edit
Verb edit
sväng
- imperative of svänga