rökruta
Swedish
Etymology
röka (“to smoke”) + ruta (“box, square”), introduced in the 1970s (or 1960s?), banned in Sweden on July 1, 1994, but largely abandoned in the late 1980s.
Noun
rökruta c
- a smoking area of a schoolyard
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | rökruta | rökrutas |
| definite | rökrutan | rökrutans | |
| plural | indefinite | rökrutor | rökrutors |
| definite | rökrutorna | rökrutornas |
References
- rökruta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- rökruta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)