väg

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See also: vag, vág, våg, and væg

Swedish

en asfalterad (paved) väg
en till (another) väg

Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Cognate with English way.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛːɡ/
  • audio (Gotland; en väg)(file)

Noun

väg c

  1. a road
    Den röda bilen körde på en väg
    The red car was driving on a road
    En älg sprang över vägen
    A moose ran across the road
    gå på fel sida av vägen
    walk on the wrong side of the road
    Sväng vänster när vägen delar sig i två
    Turn left when the road splits into two
    en asfalterad väg
    a paved road
    en grusväg
    a gravel road
    en skogsväg
    a forest road
    Bred är den väg som leder till fördärvet
    Broad is the road ("that road" – literary) that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13)
  2. a way, a route (way of getting to somewhere, concretely or abstractly)
    Kan du visa mig vägen till biblioteket?
    Can you show me the way to the library?
    Vilken väg brukar du ta till jobbet?
    What route do you usually take to work?
    Vi måste hitta en väg ut ur grottan
    We need to find a way out of the cave
    Vi sprang hela vägen hem
    We ran the whole way home
    Kartan visar vår färdväg
    The map shows our travel route
    fotbollsspelarens väg till toppen
    the soccer player's way to the top
    vattnets väg från sjö till kran
    the journey of water from lake to faucet ("the water's way from lake to faucet")
    1. a way (of reaching a certain goal), a path
      Synonym: (the more common word for "way" in this sense, but usable in different cases) sätt
      framställa en molekyl på syntetisk väg
      produce a molecule synthetically ("on synthetic way," through synthetic means)
      Filmen går inte att få tag på på laglig väg
      There's no way to get hold of the movie legally ("on legal way," through legal means)
      vård på frivillig väg kontra tvångsvård
      voluntary treatment ("treatment on voluntary way," through voluntary means) versus involuntary treatment
      visa andra vägar för ungdomar som hamnat snett
      show other paths to wayward youth
      vägen till en fredlig lösning
      the path to a peaceful solution
      Outgrundliga äro Herrens vägar
      God works in mysterious ways ("Inscrutable are the ways of the Lord" – idiomatic)
  3. (idiomatic, in "på den vägen är det" (on that way it is)) that is how it happened, that is how it came about
    Göran tyckte att jag borde skicka in några recept till tidningen, och på den vägen är det
    Göran thought I should send some recipes to the newspaper, and that is how I eventually became famous for my recipes (or the like)
  4. (in some expressions and compounds) like a certain thing, "towards" a certain thing (on the way towards a certain thing, figuratively)
    På tal om filminspirerade fordon är Åkes Mad Max-motorcykel bland det häftigaste jag sett i den vägen
    Speaking of movie-inspired vehicles, Åkes' Mad Max motorcycle is among the coolest things I've seen in that vein ("in that way")
    – Vad vill du äta, Lennart? Pasta? – Jag är sugen på nåt mer i snabbmatsväg.
    – What do you want to eat, Lennart? Pasta? – I feel like eating something more fast foodish ("something more in fast food-way").
    Stigs fest ser verkligen ut att bli nåt i hästväg
    Stig's party is really looking to be something else ("something in horse-way")

Declension

Declension of väg 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative väg vägen vägar vägarna
Genitive vägs vägens vägars vägarnas

Derived terms

See also

  • backe (“hill”)
  • gata (“street”)
  • på väg (“on one's way, on the way”)
  • rutt (“route”)
  • stig (“path, trail”)
  • sätt (“way, manner”)
  • vis (“way, manner”)

Verb

väg

  1. imperative of väga

References

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