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sorg.

sorrow, sadness (usually due to loss or other misfortune, often someone's death)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/sɔrj/

  1. sorrow, sadness (usually due to loss or other misfortune, often someone's death)

    common-gender
    Det var en djup sorg i hennes ögon
    dränka sina sorger

  2. sorrow, sadness (usually due to loss or other misfortune, often someone's death) mourning, grief

    common-gender
    sorgen efter hans döda kanin
    sorg och saknad

  3. a sorrow (something causing sorrow)

    common-gender
    Att tvingas stänga teatern är en stor sorg
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

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