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- "Barnet äter glassen."
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Yes, but it can also mean "ice", "glass" when used with the words for "a sheet of" or "window" when used with the word for "car", and even "mirror" ( think of the old term "a looking glass"). The more specific term for ice cream would be "la crème glacée" and also "la glace à la crème", but people just say "la glace" for short and with flavors. So it was easy for me to see "glass" (common noun) in Swedish as ice cream, but the English "glass" in Swedish is "glas" and is neuter. http://en.bab.la/dictionary/swedish-english/glassen http://en.bab.la/dictionary/swedish-english/glasen
http://en.bab.la/dictionary/swedish-english/glasen It does not exist. They were trying to figure out how you could tell the spelling of the word with one 's' or two from the sound of it. "glas" which is the Swedish word for "glass" is neuter and becomes "glaset", while the word for ice cream in Swedish is "glass" and is common so becomes "glassen". http://en.bab.la/dictionary/swedish-english/glassen
(Thank you Ungewitig_Wiht)