landsting
Swedish
Etymology
From land + -s- + ting.
Noun
landsting n
- a representative body (ting) for a country (land), a parliament, in various geographical and historical contexts
- a county council;[1] administrative bodies in Sweden, established in 1863, handle health care and public transport
- a zemstvo, a regional representation (district council) in Russia, 1864–1917
- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, part 1, chapter 8
- — Nå, hur går det med ert landsting? — frågade Sergej Ivanovitj, som var livligt intresserad av landstingen och tillskrev dem stor betydelse.
- "Well, how is your district council doing?" asked Sergey Ivanovitch, who was greatly interested in these local boards and attached great importance to them.
- — Nå, hur går det med ert landsting? — frågade Sergej Ivanovitj, som var livligt intresserad av landstingen och tillskrev dem stor betydelse.
- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, part 1, chapter 8
Usage notes
- In the 1990s through 2010s, ever more landsting in Sweden have adjusted their structure and changed their names to region. Compounded words change to region- or regional-, e.g. regionfullmäktige, regionråd, regionstyrelse, etc.
Declension
| Declension of landsting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | landsting | landstinget | landsting | landstingen |
| Genitive | landstings | landstingets | landstings | landstingens |
Derived terms
- landstingsfullmäktige
- landstingshus
- landstingskommunal
- landstingspolitiker
- landstingsråd
- landstingsstyrelse
- landstingsägd
References
- Utrikes namnbok (7th ed., 2007) →ISBN