"Jag älskar kläderna."

Translation: I love the clothes.

[JacobLoMenzo]

This week on "My Strange Addiction"...

[Numuji]

Do you have any tips on how to associate "clothes" with "kläder"? I keep confusing kläder for klänning

[J-Alex_Film-Guy]

I think of it like this: In English, "Clad" is a (somewhat old-fashioned) term describing the general style of dress. e.g., "clad in uniform" or "skyclad" (the latter meaning "naked"; clad in nothing at all). So, kläder = the clothes that one wears, regardless of what articles they actually are. By contrast, I think of "klänning" as associated with the term "dressing gown". That is, "klänning" = a particular item of clothing that one wears to "dress up" in.

I am a native English speaker and I haven't learned enough yet to know whether any of these associations are "correct" according to etymology, but that's just how I keep the two words straight, in my own mind.

[SwedishSucks]

There's also scantily clad in English, which means underdressed or simply not wearing much clothing

[JuanBaer]

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