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.


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