Göta

/ ˈjøːta /

noun

1. a river in S Sweden, draining Lake Vänern and flowing south-southwest to the Kattegat: forms part of the Göta Canal, which links Göteborg in the west with Stockholm in the east. Length: 93 km (58 miles)

Example Sentences

Weather researchers have identified the likely main cause of the intense rainfall as a “gota fria” – a natural weather event that hits Spain in autumn and winter when cold air descends on warmer waters over the Mediterranean.

Read more on BBC

The Associated Press quoted Andrii Gota, chairman of Centrenergo, one of the largest of Ukraine’s state energy companies, as saying, “there’s nothing left to shoot down” incoming missiles.

Read more on Salon

The 37-year-old scored 21 goals for Vikingur Gota in his native Faroe Islands - where the season has already ended - but that only equates to 10.5 major-league goals.

Read more on BBC

The response was considerably different when O’Connor, working with the Japanese jazz musician Gota Yashiki and the producer Nellee Hooper, recorded a stripped-down version for her 1990 album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.”

Read more on New York Times

Working with Japanese jazz virtuoso Gota Yashiki and Soul II Soul producer Nellee Hooper, she put a line through all the ornate R&B flourishes and pared the song back its bare essentials.

Read more on BBC