garaget

Garaget is the definite form of the Swedish noun garage, borrowed from French and English. It refers to a building or part of a building used for storing motor vehicles, most commonly cars, but it can also house tools, equipment, or serve as a workshop or hobby space. In everyday Swedish, the indefinite form is garage, while garaget denotes “the garage.”

In Swedish usage, garaget can describe both private spaces attached to a residence and standalone structures. Beyond its literal meaning, the term is sometimes used as a proper name for venues, studios, or community spaces that accommodate automotive work, crafts, or other activities. The flexibility of garages as multipurpose spaces has contributed to the word’s broad familiarity in urban and suburban contexts.

Etymology and development: the word garage arrived in Swedish in the 20th century as automobiles became common. The definite form garaget follows standard Swedish noun inflection, where the definite suffix -et is added to the base noun.

See also: garage (word in other languages), automotive terminology in Swedish, Scandinavian place names that use “Garaget” as a proper noun.

Overall, garaget functions as a stable and commonly understood term in Swedish for both a practical space used to store vehicles and a broader type of workspace or venue in cultural and urban settings.