tongång

Swedish

Etymology

ton (“tone”) +‎ gång (“going”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔnˌɡɔŋ/

Noun

tongång c

1. a succession of (played) tones (in music)

   Synonym: tonföljd

2. (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

Declension of tongång

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tongång	tongångs
	definite	tongången	tongångens
plural	indefinite	tongångar	tongångars
	definite	tongångarna	tongångarnas

References

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