tongång
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
ton (“tone”) + gång (“going”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tongång c
- a succession of (played) tones (in music)
- Synonym: tonföljd
- (figuratively, often in the plural) a general attitude expressed (in speech or writing), tone
- Idag är det mer optimistiska tongångar
- The tone is more optimistic today ("There are more optimistic successions of tones today")
- Det var rentav hatiska tongångar
- There was a downright hateful tone / (closer to the intuition) There was downright hateful language
Usage notes edit
Usually figurative.
Declension edit
| Declension of tongång | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | tongång | tongången | tongångar | tongångarna |
| Genitive | tongångs | tongångens | tongångars | tongångarnas |