"De hade upptäckt en kvinna i sjön."
Translation:They had discovered a woman in the lake.
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I think she was doing breaststroke. (Let's give the sentence a happy slant)
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I think she was handing out free swords to chosen ones. (Let's give the sentence a mystic slant)
I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
"found = hittat, but upptäckt = discovered"
Are they not synonymous enough to allow upptäcka/discover and hitta/find...?
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discover to me has the sense of 'uncovering' something fixed hitta to me implies finding something that has been lost
Almost :)
Mycket mörkt!
If you say "mycket mörk" you have to talk about something specific (n-gendered)
I know this was already answered somewhere already, but I couldn't find it: Apparently the baltic sea translates to östersjön, but sjön itself translates to lake. I find it a little bit confusing and as a geographer I concider basins with a large conection to the oceans and a high salinity as a sea, whereas lakes are inland water bodies that mostly contain freshwater (with few exceptions). So is there any rule of thumb when to translate sjön as lake and when as sea?
sjö used to mean sea, so you still find it for both seas close to Sweden: the Balsic Sea Östersjön and the North Sea Nordsjön. While wouldn't want to change the name of your neighboring sea lightheartedly, both are by definition hav:Östersjön är ett hav.
You can also find the old usage of the word sjö in some expressions:
sjöfart navigation / shipping / sea voyage / maritime shipping etc.
gå till sjöss go to sea
sjöfartsmuseum maritime museum
(There are also some lakes in Sweden with hav in their names, but that doesn't change that while maybe feeling like a sea to the people living close to them, they still are geographically speaking sjöar. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillhetens_hav,_S%C3%B6dermanland)
A similarly confusing usage of "der See" vs "die See" exists in German.
Yes, I know :/ die See mostly refers to the open sea and der see refers to an inland lake. Just making sure I got this right: sjö is a lake and hav is the sea, right?
In Icelandic hafið is the ocean/sea. So it makes sense that hav would be in some swedish lake names.
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Is this as meant to mean “a woman’s body” - as in corpse? I suspect 95% of people would read it that way.
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It could mean either a woman's body or, say, a woman swimming in the lake. It is not clear because there is no context.
There used to be a difference between the two, but now people normally use 'lady' to be formal and polite (it's the same with 'gentleman').
Främmande kvinnor som ligger i dammar som fördelar svärd är ingen grund för ett system av regering
Högsta verkställande makt härstammar från ett mandat från massorna, inte från någon farcisk vattenceremoni.
I suggest everyone to read "On the river" (Sur l'eau) by Guy de Maupassant. Tell me that's not noir.
True story in Cyprus 2019, where a serial killer was cought after one of his victims was found in a lake. The following days several missing women where found in suitcases in the bottom of Mitsero lake. This excercise brought to me some sad memories from those days...
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If i have a typo in the English language you are counting the answer wrong. Instead I can make several typos in Swedish, what language am i learning?
The dark tone of the sentence is mentioned in other comments. But it would be nice to have a confirmation that the verb upptäckt is only suitable for finding an inanimate thing (a corpse in this case) rather than an animate one (e.g. a friend), in which case we would use something like hitta? (And of course we would not expect to just bump into a friend in a lake).
"Jag upptäckte min fru vår säng med en annan man." Also kinda dark. But not about an inanimate object.
