riksdag

See also: Riksdag

Swedish

Etymology

rike +‎ dag. Calque of German Reichstag, where Tag (“a day, a meeting”) and tagen (“to meet”) are not necessarily limited to one day

Pronunciation

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Noun

riksdag c

  1. a session of parliament
  2. a parliament, in particular the institutions or the buildings of the Swedish[1] or Finnish parliaments, the old German Reichstag or the present German parliament building
    Synonym: (chiefly foreign) parlament

Declension

Declension of riksdag
nominative genitive
singular indefinite riksdag riksdags
definite riksdagen riksdagens
plural indefinite riksdagar riksdagars
definite riksdagarna riksdagarnas

See also

  • Sveriges riksdag

References

  1. ^ Government terms, Government Offices of Sweden

Further reading

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