"It is raining men."
Translation:Det regnar män.
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I guess I am not the only one not saying this sentence, but singing it! :)
I can't get it out of my head for at least half a day every time I get an email about somebody posting in this thread...
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In that case take a lingot and be reminded of it's raining men, hallelujah, it's raining men, amen...
just got to learn this sentence now, I guess it's the start of something too haha
Tall blonde dark and lean... Rough and tough and strong and mean...
Followed by "He comes" I'm dying here! I'm talking to myself and laughing now! I look insane! :)
I'm still hoping that "It's raining cats and dogs" will be made available on DuoLingo, as that one would (literarily) be "Det regnar katter och hundar" but usually translated as "Det regnar småspik" (It's raining small nails). :-)
I wish I could "like" a certain lesson. Like the oposite of a report? Like a kudos
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Is "det regnar män" a Swedish saying, a popular expression? In Dutch we have the expression "het regent oude wijven" = it is raining old women. Meaning: it is raining very hard.
I'm not sure if it's used elsewhere in the country, but it's not used where I live (westcoast area). It's definitely not a traditional Swedish expression, but rather a translation of the English "It's raining men" - a phrase that became popular due to a certain song.
In Swedish there's a traditional phrase "Det regnar småspik" (it's raining small nails), which I believe would be similar to the Dutch "het regent oude wijven". It's not the same as heavy rain, but rather a rain where the raindrops are very small and falling at a great velocity so that they pinch your skin the way small nails would do if a box of small nails were opened and thrown in your face (so that most of the nails would hit you at almost the same time). Sometimes you don't get very wet if you go outside when "det regnar småspik", but being outside will definitely be painful. (Those raindrops tend to feel very cold as well - but they're raindrops, never hail or snow.)