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Swedish
Alternative forms
- aͤga (obsolete typography)
- ega (obsolete)
- In the 6th edition of SAOL (1889), when jern changed to järn, Ega was still spelled with e with the final remark "Skrifves äfven Äga o.s.v." Some derived words never changed, like egen (“own”), egendom (“property”), egentlig (“proper”).
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish ǣgha, from Old Norse eiga, from Proto-Germanic *aigǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *eik-.
Noun
äga c
- an estate, grounds, property, land
- i någons ägo ― in one's possession
Usage notes
- Ägo in the phrase i någons ägo is an archaic dative form of this noun. The similar-looking archaic genitive form ägo is also the basis for compounds.
Declension
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Etymology 2
From Old Swedish ǣgha, from Old Norse eiga, from Proto-Germanic *aiganą, from Proto-Indo-European *eik-.
Verb
äga (present äger, preterite ägde, supine ägt, imperative äg)
- to own
- Karlskrönikan, quoted in 1913, Carl Grimberg, Svenska folkets underbara öden, I. Forntiden och medeltiden intill 1521, page 438
[…] De togo dem från vad de åtte
och kastade över bord vem de förmådde. […]- They took from them what they owned
and threw overboard whoever they could.
- (Internet slang) to own, to pwn
Fan vad ägd du blev- You got totally owned
- Synonym: ega
Usage notes
- The past tense åtte is heavily archaic and will likely not be understood by most speakers.
- Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.
Conjugation
Conjugation of äga (weak)
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