riksdag

See also: Riksdag

Swedish

The Riksdag, the Swedish parliament building.

Etymology

rike +‎ dag. Calque of German Reichstag, where Tag (“a day, a meeting”) and tagen (“to meet”) are not necessarily limited to one day

Pronunciation

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Noun

riksdag c

1. a session of parliament
2. a parliament, in particular the institutions or the buildings of the Swedish or Finnish parliaments, the old German Reichstag or the present German parliament building

   Synonym: (chiefly foreign) parlament

Declension

Declension of riksdag

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	riksdag	riksdags
	definite	riksdagen	riksdagens
plural	indefinite	riksdagar	riksdagars
	definite	riksdagarna	riksdagarnas

Related terms

• riksdagsledamot
• riksdagsdebatt
• riksdagsval

See also

• Sveriges riksdag

Further reading

• riksdag in Svensk ordbok.
• riksdag Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, 2016.