"Fermented herring is fish."
Translation:Surströmming är fisk.
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Honestly, having tried surströmming, the sentence really should be "Surströmming var fisk".
However bad you think it could possibly be, it's worse. See this:
As a matter of translation, I agree. As a matter of taste, it's debatable.
"Strömming" and "sill" is the same fish. "Strömming" is more used on the East Coast, whereas "Sill" is more used on the West Coast.
Since surströmming is a dish from the East Coast which more or less cannot be found on the West Coast, we only use the word "surströmming".
Why is "sill är fisk" considered a mistake but "surströmming är fisk" is fine? What is the difference?
Sill is just herring. Fermented herring is a Swedish specialty, that goes by the name of surströmming ("sour herring").
I understand that difference, but in one instance it is correct "sill är en fisk" while the other is "surströmming är fisk" instead of "surströmming är en fisk". I wanted to know if there is a rule behind it.
sill is a kind of fish, but surströmming is not a species of fish, it's just a dish :)
A correct statement would be "surströmming är sill" since it is a type of prepared herring, and not a different fish species.
The point though is to learn Swedish, we also have "Vitlök är en vit lök" which is obviously a silly sentence. Duo doesn't owe us scientific correctness.
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En låt om strömming från Pelle Svanslös, en klassik svensk film: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JLTBL06sHfE
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It's funny, but I can hardly understand a word and Google Translate is very little help. Is it all based on puns?
When prepared correctly, it can be fine. I have had it on Ulvon. Don't try eating it from the can first. It can be used as a garnishment, but mostly as an excuse to drink Svedka! Bli en Viking!
It might have been fish but its certainly not food. Its the worst thing I've ever eaten. My Swedish friends wife opened the can outsides, in a plastic bag, wearing rubber gloves. Surströmming, vodka and bravado are a terrible mix.
Apparently, Greenlanders have a dish (kiviak) made of dovekies (a type of sea bird) stuffed into seal skin and left to...mature, shall we say? A Danish explorer, Knud Rasmussen, poisoned himself eating it. Any time I hear the words "regional delicacy" I get extremely nervous.
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Seriously, though, jäsa is ferment, is it not? So why is jäsate strömming not accepted?
That would have been jäst strömming, but since we have a name for surströmming, we simply never say that it's jäst. And even if we did, I imagine fermenterad would be far more common.
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After watching videos about surströmming, I think I disagree with this translation. You can't call death fish. It just can't be done.
Från den historierna jag har hört, det är inte fisk men en biologisk vapen