vägas

Vägas is the present passive form of the Swedish verb väga, meaning to weigh. It indicates that an object or person is undergoing a weighing, typically by a scale or balance. As a passive form, vägas emphasizes the weighing action without specifying the agent performing it, which is often the measuring instrument.

Usage and contexts

Vägas appears in formal, technical, and procedural language as part of measurements and data collection. It is commonly used in settings such as laboratories, medical facilities, shipping and logistics, agriculture, and manufacturing, where weight is an important parameter to record. The passive construction allows the focus to remain on the measurement result rather than on who performs the weighing.

Morphology

Vägas functions as the present passive of väga. The form is used with a subject that is being weighed, while the agent is often implicit or unspecified. In Swedish, passive constructions like vägas are common in written records, specifications, and instructions.

Etymology and related forms

Väga derives from older Scandinavian forms related to weighing. The present passive suffix -s marks the passive voice in Swedish. Cognates exist in other Nordic languages, for example Danish vejes and Norwegian veies, which carry the same meaning of “to be weighed.”

See also

Weighing, Weight, Vikt, Väga.