bassänger

Bassänger is the plural form of bassäng, a Swedish noun that denotes either a basin or a pool for holding water. The term is used in two broad senses. In geography and civil engineering, bassäng refers to a water-containing space, natural or artificial, such as a reservoir basin, a flood-control basin, or the containment area of a water-treatment facility. In everyday language, bassäng most often refers to a swimming pool, either indoors in a gym or outdoors in a housing complex or public facility.

The plural bassänger is used when talking about several such units, whether discussing multiple basins in a hydrological or infrastructural context or several swimming pools in leisure settings. The singular form is bassäng, with usage patterns that parallel the English terms basin or pool. Common compound forms include simbassäng for a swimming pool, and other derivatives describe types of pools (for example, heated or children's pools).

In Nordic languages, the term has cognates such as Norwegian basseng and Danish basseng, reflecting shared Germanic roots. In Swedish, the distinctive å-ä-ö vowel system is part of the standard spelling, while the underlying meaning remains closely related to the English concepts of basin or pool. Bassänger thus covers both technical water-containing spaces and the familiar recreational pools found in many communities.