"Samboskap är mycket vanligt i Sverige."
Translation:Cohabitation is very common in Sweden.
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Yeah, it refers to a couple living together but who aren’t married. It can also be used for like flatmates without any romance however. ”Sam-” means ”co-” and ”-bo” means ”person that lives (at place/in a specific way)”.
There is also särbo, for people living in a marriage-like relationship, but at separate places, and a lot of more jocular words for types of habitation relationships based on these words.
I'm not sure it is, since coloc can be anyone that you're living with (colocataire literally meaning co-renter) whereas this seems to imply a romantic relationship between the two parties.
In another thread the mods said 'sambo' cannot be used to mean flatmates that are not in a romantic relation, tho.
It’s usually implies a romantic relationship but is sometimes used not implying that.
This "common law relationship" is so popular in Jamaica that it has pretty much the same legal status, benefits, obligations etc as an actual marriage.
But the formal term is cohabitation- I've had to use that when filling out forms sometimes
I mean, yeah, but English does literally the same thing in "roommate". :)
In the US we don't use mate so much to mean friend, like in the UK, but OK point taken. My favorite Swedish combo is leksak, play-thing.
Then you'll love to learn that the raketstol replaced the older kind of ejector seat called a katapultstol. :)
Yeah, there are a lot of fun compound words in Swedish. My favorite I've seen so far is 'raketstol' (literally 'rocket chair') being used for the ejector seats found in fighter jets.
I presume it's because samboskap is an ett-word (as distinct from the person themselves, which would be an en-word).
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SAO has samboskap as en "en" word. https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=samboskap&pz=2 Is vanligt being using as an adverb?
That's really odd. I'd also use ett samboskap, without a doubt.
Is this true throughout Sweden, or just in Stockholm, where I heard that housing is scarce and very expensive?
Everywhere. Samboskap is basically the same as living together without being married. So it's quite common in any western country, really. :)
The program cancels me out before I finish typing, repeatedly. I cannot progress!!!!
i very much hate the limited range of translations allowed by DL for 'samboskap'
That may be the programme acting up, actually. I can't check the number of allowed translations, but sentences with the word sambo allow for a ridiculously long list of acceptables.
Yes, using the standard Canadian definition. Note that common law relationships can be quite different things in different English-speaking countries. :)
