Noun: grej
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | grej |
| Sg. Def. | grejen |
| Pl. Indef. | grejer; grejor |
| Pl. Def. | grejerna; grejorna |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | grejs |
| Sg. Def. | grejens |
| Pl. Indef. | grejers; grejors |
| Pl. Def. | grejernas; grejornas |
Sample Sentences
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Ölburkar och tvättmaskiner är två exempel på grejer. (Beer cans and washing machines are two examples of things.)
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Var vill du att jag lägger grejerna? (Where do you want me to put the stuff?)
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Vad är det där för röd grej? (What is that red thing?)
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De har en ny grej på gång (They have a new thing they're working on)
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Det hände en konstig grej igår. (A strange thing happened yesterday.)
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Jag visste inte att det var en grej. (I didn't know it was a thing.)
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Atonal musik är inte min grej. (Atonal music is not my thing.)
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Grejen är (den) att vi måste hitta kunder. Annars konkar vi. (The thing is (that) we need to find customers. Otherwise we'll go bust.)
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Jag fattar inte grejen med hans filmer. Varför är de så populära? (I don't understand what the deal is with his movies. Why are they so popular?)
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Atonal schlager skulle bli vår grej, men de snodde vår idé. (Atonal schlager was going to be our thing, but they stole our idea.)
Nouns inflected like grej
grej,
Etymology
From earlier greja (whence the alternative plural form grejor). Borrowed from Norwegian greie, (dialectal) greida (“arrangement, (pl.) tools”). Derived from Old Norse greiða (“to arrange, comb, pay, perform”). Cognate with Danish grej, Norwegian Bokmål greie, and Norwegian Nynorsk greie. See: Old Norse Nouns '
greiða', Danish Nouns '
grej', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
greie', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
greie'.
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