sluss

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Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

sluss c

  1. (nautical) a lock (used for raising and lowering vessels in a canal or other waterway)
  2. (figuratively) a mechanism that lets someone/something through, a lock
    luftsluss
    airlock
  3. (figuratively) a floodgate (with a large figurative outpouring of something if opened)
    öppna slussarna
    open the floodgates
  4. (in the definite "slussen", normally capitalized) Slussen (area in central Stockholm)

Declension[edit]

Declension of sluss 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sluss slussen slussar slussarna
Genitive sluss slussens slussars slussarnas

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