"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! :)

[--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

[ghvfrcfd]

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

[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

[JamesBond479194]

could one say speck instead of dot?

[French_n_Swedish]

In Australia at least, speck would imply that it's absolutely tiny, as in, so small that I'm only bringing it up in a sort of 'perfectionist' sense. For example, as a wedding photographer, I sometimes remove skin blemishes and I might say to someone watching me edit a photo: "She has a speck on her cheek."
"A dot" is small, a speck would be minuscule.

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

As a Canadian, I agree with your comparison between speck and dot.

[devalanteriel]

So do I, but the Swedish prick covers both. :)

[MarkBorkBorkBork]

Is it that big?

[devalanteriel]

Ha, ha. :p

[devalanteriel]

I suppose so, yes.

[Evan__Thomas]

yes that's what they say in the UK