sak – Swedish noun declension

Noun: sak
Hyphenation:

Gender: Common gender

Nominative

Sg. Indef.	sak
Sg. Def.	saken
Pl. Indef.	saker
Pl. Def.	sakerna

Genitive

Sg. Indef.	saks
Sg. Def.	sakens
Pl. Indef.	sakers
Pl. Def.	sakernas

Sample Sentences

En gaffel är en sak som man äter med (A fork is a thing that you eat with)
Det ligger en massa saker på bänken (There's a bunch of things lying on the bench)
Nisse berättade en sak för mig igår (Nisse told me something yesterday [told a thing to [for] me yesterday])
Märkliga saker sker på slottet (Strange things are happening at the castle)
Det kunde gått bättre, den saken är säker (It could have gone better, that's for sure ["that thing is sure" – idiomatic])
göra något för sakens skull (do something for its own sake ["do something for the thing's sake" – idiomatic])
Kom in! Vad gäller saken? (Come in! What brings you here? [What is the thing about?])
Låt oss ta en sak i taget (Let's take one thing at a time)
Låt oss hålla oss till saken (Let's stick to the point [Let us keep ourselves to the thing [at hand]])
ta saken till domstol (bring the matter to court)
ta saken i egna händer (take matters into one's own hands [take the matter in own hands])
saken är utagerad (the matter has been settled [is out-acted])
Saken är den att vi inte vet var han är ([The] thing is [the thing is that [thing] that], we don't know where he is)
kämpa för sin sak (fight for one's cause)
göra gemensam sak (make common cause)
offra sig för saken (sacrifice oneself for the cause)
Finlands sak är vår (The Finnish cause is ours [book title])

Nouns inflected like sak

kosovoalban, olikformighet, urinoar, dödspatrull, universitetsadjunkt, villaförort, urkraft, knallpulverpistol, bacillusk, symbol, synkop, sydpol, mikroorganism, abiturient, flykthastighet, syrian, rådjursjakt, partikamrat, skyttesoldat, debutroman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse sǫk, from Proto-Germanic *sakō. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål sak, Norwegian Nynorsk sak, Danish sag, Icelandic sök, English sake, Dutch zaak, German Low German Saak, Sook, German Sache. An unrelated word that also underwent the transformation in meaning from "legal matter" to "thing, item" is Latin causa. See: Old Norse Nouns 'sǫk', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'sak', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'sak', Danish Nouns 'sag', Icelandic Nouns 'sök', English Nouns 'sake', Dutch Nouns 'zaak', German Nouns 'Sache'.

Verbs referencing "sak"

Danish Nouns sag, German Nouns Sache, Icelandic Nouns sök, Old English Nouns sacu.