I'm from New Zealand working in Sweden and these videos are a great insight into the Swedish people, they are also a lot of fun, please keep it up! Tack så mycket

"Att gå som katten runt het gröt" is the exakt opposite of "vara het på gröten". The cat is walking around it but never gets to it.

I recently found out in 49% Scandinavian and it makes me so happy watching and hearing about Scandinavia as a whole

Riktigt bra gjort! Väldigt bra förklaringar. En eloge!👍

Some Dutch/Flemish ones "gaat daarmee naar de oorlog" or "go to war with that one", meaning that someone is everything but bright "alsof er een engeltje op je tong pist" or "it's as if a little angel pees on your tongue", meaning that a drink is really delicious "iets aframmelen" or "to rattle something", meaning that you recite something dutifully and without inspirationt "met zijn voeten spelen" or "to play with his feet", meaning to fool someone (but not playful - most of the time-) we also use the "pest of cholera" one.

Very nice to watch this video. I enjoyed it a lot. I share one phrase from the several that I remembered (Mexico); "They only visit the cactus when it has fruits" - "Al nopal lo van a ver sólo cuando tiene tunas". The sense is that you only do that because you can get a benefit, but the rest of the time (the majority) you don't.

It feels like home to listen to your videos! I'm a Swede now living in the UK for ten years and it makes me smile to hear all these idioms. Some other idioms to add to your list is "fått om bakfoten" and "hellre pissa i stuprännan än stupa i pissrännan". 😂 I found your channel last week and have been binging since! Du visar verkligen var skåpet ska stå in your videos. Keep posting! ❤️

My favorite: "tål att tänkas på" Translation: "endures to be thought about" Perfect when you're met with a new idea you don't want to conclude then and there. Like if you have a though decision to make that can be postponed, then that decision "endures to be thought about".

“Clean flour in the bag” is my favorite. Enjoyed the post. You hit a home run.

My grandfather once told me "Du e riktic schlaba" (written phonetically) which he said meant "you're a regular slob." He was a little tipsy at the time but we had a great laugh.

”Fara omkring som en osalig ande” kunde varit med som ett uttryck. När någon rör sig nervöst och oplanerat. ”Move around like a spirit, who have not been saved”

My favorite is "don't bite the foot that stomps your grapes". It's a version of "don't bite the hand that feeds you". Don't be ungrateful to someone who is taking care of you. I liked "clean in the flour bag". It comes close to "pure as the driven snow", sort of.

het på gröten och som en katt kring het gröt betyder två olika saker. Den ena är att du är ivrig (och kan göra saker för tidigt) den andra betyder att du drar dig för att göra/konfrontera något/någon (av rädsla för att såra någon t.ex) fast du vet att du måste.

Thanks! I ‘ m learning Swedish and I enjoyed your video! Tack ska du ha!

Your video opened up such a fantastic international dialogue. So much fun to read the comments from different countries. Thank you for that.😉 segment.

Nära skjuter ingen hare kan man översätta med "close but no ciggar".

I love your video. My father was a first generation Swedish immigrant child, so I heard tagit på sängen a lot, but he became an English professor and taught Shakespeare. My favorite Shakespearian phrase is "hoisted by his own petard" which comes from the soldiers who would arm a catapult with the crane called a "petard" and would sometimes hook themselves by their own belt and hoist themselves into the air! Hoisted by his own petard! lol

Its interesting to hear different cultural sayings! I am totally amazed with your english, I wish I could speak another language a perfectly as you do. Thanks for sharing

Oh thats an interesting video. I am learning Swedish for actually no reason, I just gillar språket. And that video is pretty useful to expand my vocabulary. So I found some parallels to German: Nära skuter ingen hare is similar to "Knapp daneben ist auch vorbei" so basically "just off the mark is also a miss" | Balsam för själen is another example being: "Balsam für die Seele" pretty much 1:1 translated ;D Gå åt skogen could be "Ein Schuss in den Ofen" so a 'shot in the furnace' basically meaning that what you did was just a complete fail. And a last one is Visa vart skåpet ska stå. It is "Zeigen wo der Hammer hängt" so 'showing where the hammer hangs' basically but there are quite a lot of variations for this one ;D. Meaning the same of course as you said in the video.

I think my favorite Swedish expression is “ingen ko på isen” or “no cow on the ice”, meaning there’s no urgency. I use this all the time, in both languages.

Marvelous!

Inget att hänga i julgranen (“Nothing to hang on the Christmas tree) might translate well to the English expression (possibly just American, but I'm not sure), “Nothing to write home about”, which has that same idea of something not being that great, but maybe good enough, if I understand the meaning behind the Swedish phrase well enough. “Hey, I heard the apple pie down at the diner is really good. Have you tried it?” “Yeah. It’s ok, but nothing to write home about.” The idea is, as you probably guess, is that something is good enough that you’d take the time to send a letter back home to tell everyone all about The Thing being discussed.

Min favvis, som jag också ofta översätter till engelska för glada skratt är " det är ingen ko på isen" 🙄 Tycker också det är härligt att höra din skånska då och då. 🤗

Tack så mycket ❤😊

Thank youu👏👏

Thank you so much for your video

May I make a suggestion for another video? How about making a video about Scandinavian names? You can start with Vigre Bohinen, and then explain the different naming conventions like in AndersSON, Dōttir etc. What are the different Scandinavian ethnicities like Sami or Goth and so on? How about your own? How common is it for a modern day Swede or Norwegian to marry someone from another country? What is the proportion of couples who have children, but are not married? Would you like to have children in your minimalist lifestyle? What is the difference between Pagan and religious holidays in Scandinavia (especially around Christmas time)? Are most Scandinavians today Lutheran and are they religious? Are there any religious political parties? These are just some questions I'd like to hear you talk about. Perhaps others may find them interesting too.

I would say that "het på gröten" is more negatively charged (like "lök på laxen"/"fuel on the fire") and "pang på rödbetan" is more positively charged (like "grädde på moset"/"icing on the cake"). So being on a date with someone that is "pang på rödbetan" is someone you'd most definitely would want to see again! 🙂

You make us loooooove Sweden ! For sure ;)

In the American south, we have an expression “no skin off my nose” which means something like it wouldn’t bother me. For example “you’re going to be late for i that meeting if you don’t hurry” You could reply “no skin off my nose” if you aren’t worried about it

1:42 This reminds me of the “almost” expression in American English. Something like almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. (There may be more to it.) Horseshoes is a game of skill that involves tossing a horseshoe at a pole and trying to get the inner part of the horseshoe to hit the pole and have it twirl around as it descends. (Might want to fact check the actual rules…my family make their own.) Apparently you can still get some points even if it doesn’t work out quite as you might like. And of course, with hand grenades, they, you know, have a sizable radius of destruction, so if you get close, that will be good enough. I think 90% of the time I heard a man say it and the other 10% it was a little boy, so… 🤷‍♀️

In Croatia/ Bosnia we also have conditioner for the soul, but it’s more like balm for the soul -melem za dušu. :)

"To have skin on nose" reminded me on the German expression "To have hairs on the teeth" when someone is tough, straight forward.

Dropped behind the carriage in America is "fell off the turnip truck".😂

"Fine as Froghair!"

Vi får komma ihåg att betydelsen av idiom ändras över tid, i olika landsdelar och t o m olika familjer. Alldeles exakta betydelser skiftar alltså. Min favvo är: "Det finns fler än ett sätt att flå en katt!" de SA3BOW

My native laguage is Austrian German, and we use "Conditioner for the Soul" (Balsam für die Seele) and "deciding between plague and cholera" (zwischen Pest und Cholera entscheiden) too.

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we do have the "hare" one in English: "close only counts in horseshoes" (and hand grenades)

Often when someone seems very intelligent and alert, we say that they are very "sharp"... however, if we speak of someone who is *spectacularly NOT* very smart, we can say something like, "He's about as sharp as a bag of wet mice" - I often say this about myself ahahahaha 😄

Can't stop laughing at 💩 in the blue cupboard 😂 I'm just using that in English lol

a lot of these seem to relate to the bed room.

Is i magen i fairly close to stay frosty but not in a military setting.

At least half of them we also use in Danish ... not so surprisingly. But others I've never heard before ... 8-)))

One of my favorite expressions in French us: :"donner sa langue au chat". It's to give your tongue to the cat, i.e. you are at a loss for words.

Intressant, men visar också lite på dialektala skillnader. Jag som inte är från Skåne eller de södra delarna skulle aldrig säga någonting annat än "Dra åt skogen".

Bang on the beaver might explain it a little bit better. 😜

My mother, a Swede born in 1919, when asked about the taste of something which is very bland would say "It tastes like sticking your tongue out the window". I, being American, cannot offer the Swedish. The image, however is amusing.

Saga, "pang på rödbetan" är inte ett uttryck som bara anspelar på sex. I en vidare bemärkelse kan det också betyda att man inte har övervägt sina handlingar.

Holz vor der Hütte haben - She has Wood in front of the hut - German idiom describing a woman with a large chest,

Now you have planted your last potato Saga! How could you miss the most important one?

Some of my friends are Swedish somehow i find them different but interesting haha

I would be curious to know what your favorite English idioms are, and what the equivalent Swedish translation would be.

😂bang on the beetroot. I can't wait to use it.

Hello, Saga. This was a fun and light-hearted video, that made me smile! I like > (probably due to growing up with J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit in particular ...) and, especially, >!😅 The culture in the UK has become rather too much >, following the US as we do in all things. (I like how flaunting status was really not the Swedish culture - is that still the case? I last visited in 2015, and it was definitely different in a good way to the UK in this respect ... .) As for British expressions that confuse people from other countries: "How do you do." on meeting someone is not a question, but a slightly old-fashioned or formal equivalent of "hello". The right response is also "How do you do.", not "Great, thanks.". If actually asked how you are doing as a question, "Not too bad." is a British response that covers everything from abject despair to being on top of the world. We still practise laconic understatement ... You may find this funny (if YT allows me to post a link): polish2english.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/55551980-anglo-eu-translation-guide1.pdf

Ooops. Here's an English one - "gone to the dogs" meaning it's got worse e.g. the cafe has gone to the dogs since the new manager took over. Or "monkey business" meaning getting into trouble e.g. I hope those two little boys don't get up to any monkey business outside in the garden.

Uffda

Funny how some of them are also used in Finnish even though the languages are totally different.

Great vid, but English should be marked with the British flag surely ? It is where the English language is from.

"Dra dit pepparn växer" is a bit odd. "Leave/go to where the pepper grows". Assumingly far away I guess. Or does pepper grow in hell perhaps?

”Ont krut förgås inte”, vilket är en felöversättning av tyska ”Unkraut vergeht nicht”, alltså ogräs och inte ont krut. In english: ” Evil gunpowder will not be destroyed” Try to explain this in english..😅

att glida in på en räkmacka slide in on a shrimp sandwich to get a position undeservedly

Skita i det blå skåpet, måste vara något skånskt uttryck för jag har aldrig hört det förut🤔

Tummen mitt i handen

Here's an English one -

Why the Us-flag? The language is English, represented by the UK-flag.... 🙄

So annoyed that you used the US flag to denote English language. Forgiven if you don't do it again 🙂

I'm a Swede in Chicago... have no understanding of my heritage. Thanks for the lesson! One thing I've learned... We're Globetrotters! How do you say that one?❤