kungstanke

Swedish

Etymology

By surface analysis, kung +‎ -s- +‎ tanke. Possibly borrowed from Danish kongstanke, originally from the 1863 play The Pretenders by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. First attested in 1905.

Noun

kungstanke c

  1. basic idea; principal notion of how something should be
    Synonym: grundtanke

Declension
Declension of kungstanke 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kungstanke kungstanken kungstankar kungstankarna
Genitive kungstankes kungstankens kungstankars kungstankarnas

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