"A girl eats a sandwich."
Translation:En flicka äter en smörgås.
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Yup! The ancestry of smorgasbord goes directly back to Swedish (guess you'd even call it a loan word?). The Swedish "smörgås" meaning sandwich, and the Swedish "bord" meaning table become combined to form the English word smorgasbord which generally means a large spread of food (typically on a wide table unsurprisingly).
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Yes, it's not even a question of whether it's a loan word, it's 100% a loan word straight from Swedish. There are others, such as "ombudsman", and, although not exactly Swedish so much as Old Norse, "saga" - among many more.
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Thanks for the info! It seemed obvious to call it a loan word, but I didn't know if the term had some stricter definition when it came to linguistics so I decided to convey my own uncertainty, lol
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Don't you just love how the word "smörgås" looks? It's so beautiful with that ö and that å ^^ hahaha
You can’t find logic in the genders. They’re often arbitrary. In this case it’s because -gås means ”goose” and living things tend to be ”en”, but normally there is no logic.
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I worte ett in place of en.. And the app said it was wrong.. Why i thought both mean one!
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Both words mean one, but you can't use them randomly with nouns. You'll need to learn if it's en or ett for each noun.
