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Swedish
Etymology
ton (“tone”) + gång (“going”)
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Usually figurative.
Declension
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