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Arg, sur, irriterad and förbannad: the Swedish mood scale
Swedish has several ways to say that someone is in a bad mood.
You can be a little irriterad because someone is chewing too loudly. Sur because the coffee has run out. Arg because the train has been cancelled. And förbannad when the train has been cancelled, the coffee has run out and someone is still chewing too loudly.
The words are related, but they do not feel the same. They sit at different points on the mood scale, from a slight crease between the eyebrows to the
Johanna N
Jul 186 min read
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