sluss
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]sluss c
- (nautical) a lock (used for raising and lowering vessels in a canal or other waterway)
- (figuratively) a mechanism that lets someone/something through, a lock
- luftsluss
- airlock
- (figuratively) a floodgate (with a large figurative outpouring of something if opened)
- öppna slussarna
- open the floodgates
- (in the definite "slussen", normally capitalized) Slussen (area in central Stockholm)
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | sluss | sluss |
| definite | slussen | slussens | |
| plural | indefinite | slussar | slussars |
| definite | slussarna | slussarnas |