Words similar to swedish
Example sentences for: swedish
How can you use “swedish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(Traditional explanations include European encounters with Indians wearing red paint, or else the creative labeling system of 18 th -century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus.)
In any case, the Swedish Academy has explained why it gave Grass the prize--because of his first novel, The Tin Drum , published in 1959.
Does this mean that the difference between, say, Swedish social democracy and Nazi state capitalism is less significant than the similarities?
English eyebrow and German Augenbraue are matched by Swedish ögenbryn , Norwegian øyebryn , Danish øjenbryn , Icelandic (Old and Mod.) augabrún , Faroese eygnabro .
Similarly, unless you heard them spoken you might not recognize ajskrym, erebeta , and kontaklinser as, respectively, Polish for ice cream , Japanese for elevator , and Swedish for contact lenses . The champion of this dissembling process must surely be the Italian sciacchenze , which is simply a literal rendering of the English shake hands , although the Swahili word for a traffic island, kiplefti ( keep left ) runs it a close second.