tyngdpunkt

Swedish

Etymology

tyngd (“weight”) +‎ punkt (“point”)

Noun

tyngdpunkt c

  1. (physics) a center of gravity
  2. (somewhat figuratively) a main focus, a main emphasis
    I sin recension lägger han tyngdpunkten på restaurangens kebabsås
    In his review, he places the main focus on the restaurant's kebab sauce

Usage notes

Usually in the sense of "thing most focused on" rather than "most important thing" in (sense 2). The thinking is more along the lines of "the point where someone puts the weight (focus)," just from the components of the word.

Declension
Declension of tyngdpunkt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tyngdpunkt tyngdpunkten tyngdpunkter tyngdpunkterna
Genitive tyngdpunkts tyngdpunktens tyngdpunkters tyngdpunkternas

References
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