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| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5906 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 9 of 50 17 January 2014 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Be careful with this one :-) Some people might think it's a bit... crass I guess? But some people use it, mostly about bathrooms in a normal house. It's a totally normal word for teenage boys. I wouldn't use it around a friend's grandma... Or ever, now that I think about it... It's kinda like our equivalent of "the crapper". If you're looking for a public toilet in a mall or something, or asking for the bathroom at someone's house, you would usually use toalett, or do. Don't ask the staff where the "dass" is. I would use utedo for those small wooden houses that still exist near some cabins, but utedass is also used. (It's rare that people actually use those though! They're just... there.) This might be the weirdest topic I've written a post about on this forum lol. Liz Edited by Lizzern on 17 January 2014 at 9:01pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4665 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 10 of 50 17 January 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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sömn -en (the) sleep
falla i sömn – fall asleep gå i sömnen – sleepwalk Edited by Medulin on 17 January 2014 at 10:00pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5303 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 11 of 50 18 January 2014 at 12:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Norwegian (and Danish?)
støvsuge - clean with a vacuum cleaner støvsuger - vacuum cleaner Swedish: dammsuga - clean with a vaccum cleaner dammsugare - vacuum cleaner Litteraly the these verbs mean dust-suck. They are examples of so-called noun incorporation which is a productive feature of the Scandinavian languages. But verbs with an incorporated noun that are used frequently often get lexicalized with a more specific meaning, like these words. Edited by Aquila123 on 18 January 2014 at 12:32am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4308 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 12 of 50 21 January 2014 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Snart feels like a good word for today, it is 'soon' in Norwegian. For some reason I didn't know it.. I saw it on an advertisement on NRK TV in my dorm and looked it up so I figure I'd share it.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4665 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 13 of 50 22 January 2014 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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vemod (-et) = longing, saudade (port.), Sehnsucht (germ)., añoranza/morriña (sp.) Edited by Medulin on 22 January 2014 at 6:29pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4518 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 14 of 50 22 January 2014 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's a very specific kind of longing, the one were you think back in time and wish it were like that again (but it isn't and that makes you a bit sad). The term in German is - surprise surprise - Wehmut :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4308 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 15 of 50 23 January 2014 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Frokost, which is the Norwegian word for breakfast. I kind of knew it earlier but I should make that an active vocab 'ord'.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 16 of 50 23 January 2014 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Danish frokost is lunch, btw.
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