"Du har en prick på kinden."

Translation: You have a dot on your cheek.

[skullcap]

a...dot. yes, yes.

[jaiirapetjan]

Reading the other comments relieved me from the guilty feeling that I alone might have a mind in the gutter.

[Antti22]

You are most definitely not alone.

[BrianCcreature]

We are all together in the gutter :)

[TonyDavis153318]

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde

[devalanteriel]

You mean those shiny pricks in the sky?

[Nerdator]

This is the only time I have not been happy about knowing English and German at the same time.

[jwbards]

Well, the Swedish for "dot" certainly isn't going to be difficult to remember.

[Stux_net]

It is possible too know to much apparently

[zgz.]

Does this refer to a beauty spot/ mole?

[Zmrzlina]

It could. It could also refer to a dot someone drew with a sharpie pen. It's just a dot of any kind.

[zgz.]

Tack som alltid! :)

[ghvfrcfd]

If it's a glowing red dot, you better duck

[--Charlotte--]

In Dutch we call this "Swaffelen"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaffelen

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

I wonder how long until that gets adopted into other languages.

[--Charlotte--]

Well it's been out there for a while now, so the rest of the world better get a move on :D

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

We have similar terms in English, but they're nowhere near as poetic.

[Cocio_16]

The french word for this is "bifle".

[endotassia]

"Swaffelen was named as the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008." Great :D

[desifromitaly]

What's the difference between "prick" and "punkt"? Do you use "punkt" only for punctuation?

[devalanteriel]

Yup, a punkt is usually a point or a period.

[desifromitaly]

Tack tack!

[Patrick747417]

There is also a nautical term "prick" that translates to "spar buoy"

[CymruLlewes]

I was thinking it had to be something akin to pin prick.

[CarloGamag1]

Isn't "your" implied and therefor not needed? In this case the sentence would be You have a dot on the cheek

[Steph.Ro]

Swedish generally uses the definite form of a noun instead of the 'possessive pronoun + indefinite noun' construction - particularly with body parts - if it is clear whose it is, or rather if it belongs to the subject of the sentence. English seems to prefer having the possessive pronoun.

See other sentences on this course:

• Mormor hittar inte mobilen. - Grandma cannot find her mobile/cell.
• Han tappade passet. - He lost his passport.

[jUPV8MMd]

'on the cheek' doesn't sound natural in English. In fact the sentence is quite stilted, I'd be more likely to say 'there's a spot on your cheek'.

[JessieLangstrump]

I forgot what the Swedish word for 'dot' was, so I was thinking, "Did she just say what I think she said?". Haha. :P

[deactivated user]

I found a new favorite word in Swedish. This word is a goldmine of jokes. :D

[John_Friend]

Why was spot not accepted?