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- "Hästen äter min halsduk."
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558
Tack för det. And as a teacher, I agree. Unstructured time and play are so critical for learning and creativity...and so under appreciated.
Is this sentence for real? xDD The horse is eating my scarf. WHEN will I have to say this?? LOL Well, I don't know Sweden, maybe this happens a lot there.
1451
We have the word sjal in Swedish. It can be used for halsduk, but it's more often used for larger triangular or quadratic shawls than for long rectangular scarves, which are typically halsduk.
1451
It's really hard to say this in a truly idiomatic way in Swedish, for lots of reasons. Most importantly, you should probably have the particle verb åt upp (stress upp) here. Let's say Hunden åt upp min läxa, it's still not an unproblematic sentence, but I guess it will have to do.
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Halsduk kinda reminds me of the word halsdoek from Dutch (it sounds the same). It's not actually a word but hals and doek are, if you put the together it means a cloth for your neck, or in other words a scarf. That's really cool.
558
I think what happened here is that the original example about the horse eating a scarf got mixed up with my question about how to say "My dog ate my homework". "My dog ate my homework" is a kind of American cultural joke that refers to the ridiculous reasons that students give for not having their homework done when they arrive at school.