sluttning

Swedish

Etymology

slutta (“slope (downwards)”) +‎ -ning (“-ing”)

Noun

sluttning c

  1. an area of sloping ground; a slope, a hillside
    Synonym: (loosely) backe
    kullens sluttning
    the side of the hill / the hillside

Usage notes

  • Intuitively, backe puts more emphasis on the slope (possibly) being part of a path or traversed, while a sluttning is an area of sloping ground more generally. This makes backe the natural word for a ski slope (skidbacke), for example, where "skidsluttning" sounds more like "ski incline." Native speakers might sometimes use backe where sluttning would be more idiomatic according to this intuition.
  • Lutning is usually more idiomatic when talking about degree of slope, though sluttning appears as well (for downward slope – see slutta, from which sluttning would intuitively be derived in this case).

Declension

Declension of sluttning
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sluttning sluttnings
definite sluttningen sluttningens
plural indefinite sluttningar sluttningars
definite sluttningarna sluttningarnas

Derived terms

  • bergssluttning

See also

References

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