"The bag contained all my things."
Translation:Väskan innehöll alla mina saker.
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In Danish, 'thing' was translated as 'ting' and Swedish also has the same word, but is it a synonym to 'sak' and is it as commonly used as 'sak'?
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I don't know anyone who would use "ting". It can be used, but it's kinda prehistoric. "Sak" is the word to remember :)
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Also, people seem to very commonly say grejer for things in this sort of context - I'm not sure what the distinction is. Maybe it's a little more informal, like "stuff" (although unlike stuff, it's also used in the singular: en grej).
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I would translate "sak" to "thing" and "grej" to "thingy". "Grej" sounds about as informal and childish to my ears in Swedish as "thingy" does in English.
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Interesting. There's this one song in Swedish where one of the lines is "Jag måste göra min grej". So is grej maybe more of a non-physical thing?
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This is a case where sak wouldn't work as well. I don't think grej works better for non-physical things, it's just that sak sounds way too formal in this case. (At least to my ears)
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Note though, that it's used in ingenting (nothing), någonting (something) and allting (everything).
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I remember having heard 'saker och ting' - in what context would it be used?
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It is a fixed expression and you can find examples here http://sv.bab.la/lexikon/svensk-engelsk/saker-och-ting