en sorg

sorg in a sentence

• med sorg i hjärtat
  with grief in one's heart
• Det var en djup sorg i hennes ögon
  There was a deep sadness in her eyes
• sorgen efter hans döda kanin
  his mourning for his dead rabbit
• sorg och saknad
  grief and loss [grief and missing]
• svår sorg
  severe grief
• Jag beklagar sorgen
  I am sorry for your loss [idiomatic]
• hantera sorg
  cope with grief / deal with loss

Words built with sorg

• sorgehögtid mourning ceremony
• sorgfri carefree
• sorgdräkt mourning
• sorglös light-hearted

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Origin

From Old Norse sorg, from Proto-Germanic *surgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”).

Nearby common words

sorg is number 1,696 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 1,692by village, gust
• 1,693himla awful, really
• 1,694kaka cake, cookie
• 1,695skilja separate, part, sever; divide, distinguish, differentiate, tell apart
• 1,697försvunnen lost, disappeared
• 1,698sår wound, cut
• 1,699lisa to relieve, to alleviate (pain or worries)
• 1,700överraska surprise, astonish