vecka

• IPA^(key): /²vɛkːa/

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• Homophone: väcka
• Rhymes: -²ɛka

From Old Swedish vika, from Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

vecka c

1. a week, a period of 7 days.

   förra veckan ― last week

   nästa vecka ― next week

   den här veckan ― this week

   varje vecka ― every week

   Det går sju dagar på en vecka.

   There are seven days in a week.

2. a numbered period, ranging from 1 to 52 or 53, containing seven days beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday

   Synonym: v.

   Hypernym: datum

   Vattnet kommer tillfälligt stängas av på torsdag vecka 35 pga underhållsarbete.

   The water supply will be temporarily turned off on Thursday week 35 due to maintenance.

• Compounds are formed with vecko-, an archaic genitive.

veck (“more or less sharp fold; fold, crease, pleat, etc.”) +‎ -a

vecka (present veckar, preterite veckade, supine veckat, imperative vecka)

1. to make more or less sharp folds (veck) (in something soft, like fabric, paper, or skin, deliberately or inadvertently); to fold, to crease, to pleat, etc.

   veckat tyg

   pleated fabric [can also be expressed as "plisserat tyg"]

• veck

• plissera (“pleat”)
• rynka (“wrinkle”)
• rynkad (“gathered”)
• skrynklig
• vika

• vecka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vecka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vecka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)