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minus-squareMissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·2 months agoUnkraut in German. Doesn’t deserve to be called a Kraut.
minus-squareesa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·2 months agoSimilar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass. I’ve heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won’t eat.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoOgräs in swedish, gräs is herb and the O is like making it not-grass. Röka gräs is smoking weed though so suddenly it’s getting the good treatment.
minus-squareTaTTe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoHerb is ört in Swedish. Gräs is better translated as grass, so ogräs is non-grass. This also enables a funny way to insult someone’s lawn – since lawn is gräsmatta (grass carpet) – by calling it an ogräsmatta.
minus-squareHyonoKo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·2 months agoSo technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.
Unkraut in German. Doesn’t deserve to be called a Kraut.
Similar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass.
I’ve heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won’t eat.
Ogräs in swedish, gräs is herb and the O is like making it not-grass.
Röka gräs is smoking weed though so suddenly it’s getting the good treatment.
Herb is ört in Swedish. Gräs is better translated as grass, so ogräs is non-grass. This also enables a funny way to insult someone’s lawn – since lawn is gräsmatta (grass carpet) – by calling it an ogräsmatta.
So technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.
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