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Flicka, one of a set of identical triplets in the children's book Flicka, Ricka, Dicka by Swedish author/illustrator Maj Lindman; Flicka, a character in the 2005 American neo-noir black comedy crime film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; Flicka, a mustang horse in the 1941 novel My Friend Flicka and its two sequels, Thunderhead (1943) and Green Grass of ...
Flicka Ricka Dicka (in Swedish Rufsi, Tufsi, Tott) is the name of fictional triplets depicted in a series of children's books by author/illustrator Maj Lindman. [1] The triplets, all girls with blond hair, live in Sweden and have light hearted misadventures.
Examples from Swedish: tjej, meaning 'girl' (originally slang, but now a more common alternative to the older flicka) puffra, meaning 'gun' (used to be common slang) hak, meaning 'place, joint, establishment' (used to be common slang) vischan, meaning 'the countryside', 'boondocks' or 'rural areas' (used to be common slang)
Lexin is an online Swedish and Norwegian lexicon that can translate between Swedish or Norwegian and a number of other languages. Its original use was to help immigrants translate between their native languages and Swedish, but at least the English-Swedish-English lexicons are so complete that many Swedes use them for everyday use.
aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [6]; brisling, "sprat" [7]; fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes" [8]; flense, "to strip of blubber or skin" [9]
This is a list of English words borrowed from the Swedish language. aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [1] fartlek, "endurance training in which a runner alternates periods of sprinting with periods of jogging" [2] gantelope, "gauntlet" [3]
Scanian (Swedish: skånska [ˈskɔ̂nːska] ⓘ) is an East Scandinavian dialect spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden.. Broadly speaking, Scanian has been classified in three different ways:
Svenska Akademiens ordbok (Swedish: [ˈsvɛ̂nːska akadɛˈmiːns ˈûːɖbuːk]), abbreviated SAOB, is a historical dictionary of the Swedish language published by the Swedish Academy. It is the Swedish counterpart of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) or the Deutsches Wörterbuch (DWB). Work on the dictionary started in 1787.