Wikipedia says that a deponent verb is active in meaning, but passive in form. The University of Surrey describes deponency more generally as a mismatch between morphology and morphosyntax. That...
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I am sorry you are no longer writing this blog. It is great fun, and interesting. I am an English teacher learning Swedish, and am very interested in words. I'm greatly enjoying your thoughts on ...
In the UK at least, Ingen Reklam Tack (No Advertising Thanks), is represented by the phrase 'No Junk Mail' stuck onto peoples letterboxes. Thanks for the interesting post.
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thanks for useful information! i'm trying to learn swedish right now, and it's very nice to see how one word can be used in different expressions - makes it easier to remember :)
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This blog is fabulous! Just a thought could the sign mean that Uppsala is the fourth largest place to visit? As it is the fourth largest city in Sweden that might have something to do with it. In...
Hej! Have you written anything about fika?? Was just finishing up an article about fika (the meaning et al) and wanted to see if I can link up to something.
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Hi, thank you for a great blog! I am a linguistics student and a native speaker of Swedish and have learned a lot about my own language from reading here. You are awfully correct in all I've read...
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Your blog is very helpful for me since I am learning Swedish. I never thought of comparing the var, vart, and varifran to where, whence, and whither. Being an English major I should have made tha...
I often use Svensk etymologist ordbok (ca. 1922) http://runeberg.org/svetym/ Here’s the entry for ärtskocka http://runeberg.org/svetym/1311.html
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First a small correction (since I often do proofreading): in the table "harifrån" should be "härifrån". It is great to learn more Swedish from a non-Swede! ;-) I knew many Swedes have a proble...