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"The old duck was swimming in money."
Translation:Den gamla ankan badade i pengar.
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Scrooge McDuck "makes sure that all his funds are in liquid assets." See the cartoon strip where "Scrooge thought 'it's the end' but he miraculously found that he could dive through the hard metal coins as if they were liquid." https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174146/how-can-scrooge-mcduck-dive-into-money-without-hurting-himself
Same goes with "uncle". It's translated with farbror (paternal uncle) for both "Uncle Donald" (Farbror Kalle) and "Uncle Scrooge" (Farbror Joakim), but in the background stories it is revealed that in both cases, morbror (maternal uncle) would be more accurate! The reason is of course that English doesn't distinguish between the two, and farbror is (or, was, in any case) commonly used to refer to any familiar older man, similar to how "uncle" is used in some varieties of English.
(As you can see, Swedes are quite familiar with Donald Duck...)
I just read this answer, so I'll pass it on:
"Bada" means "to bathe" as in "to soak oneself in the water/whatever." "Simma" means "to swim" as in "to engage in the act of swimming."
Basically, everyone who "simma" is "bada" (because we have to soak/bathe ourselves first in order to swim), but not everyone who "bada" is "simma" (since some people soak themselves but never do any paddling.)
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Ducktales on the Gameboy was the coolest game ever! It wad remade for PS3 too. Search for it on YouTube, the moon level was the coolest ever :D
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Haha Scrooge McDuck is part of DuckTales, his great nephews are Huey, Dewey and Louie. Donald Duck is their uncle which makes Scrooge McDuck Donald Duck's Uncle. Hope this helps xD
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Tell me again the difference between ank and and. I wrote ank and was informed and was the correct version, Is Uncle Scrooge wild as well as old?
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I got this sentence on Christmas Day... apparently the cartoon is part of an important Swedish Christmas tradition so God Jul! to my Swedish Duolingo friends :)