"Jeg hygger med en god bog og en kop te."

Translation: I make myself comfortable with a good book and a cup of tea.

[Thidrekr]

Ah..."hygge," the cousin to the untranslatable German concept of "Gemütlichkeit."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gem%C3%BCtlichkeit

[JamesTWils]

I might suggest "snuggle up."

[EmiliaAlice]

Or "make myself cosy"

[PierrePoutine]

Or "curl up"

[SuzannaWaldorff]

på dansk siger man : jeg hygger mig - eller jeg hygger on en eller anden - kun negativt kan man sige : hun hygger ikke, om en person der ødelægger en god stemning, eller hun hygger , hvis hun giver lidt positivt til stemningen.

[belladt]

I do agree that we usually make the verb it reflexive, but where I am from, it is also common just to say "jeg hygger", but only if there is no object. So "Jeg hygger mig med en god bog" but, if someone were to ask me what i was doing in said situation, i might just reply "jeg hygger!" instead of "jeg hygger mig!". The latter might be more correct though, as the former may be more colloquial. I'm not sure!

[Jnwulff]

You would say something like "hun ødelægger hygger" (she is destroying the hygge)

"hun gør det hyggeligt" ( she is making it comfortable)

[Lars982522]

I agree it should be "hygger mig"

[ElliMay]

Why isn't "I make myself comfortable..." allowed?

[RyagonIV]

That's part of the preferred translation, actually: "I make myself comfortable with a good book and a cup of tea."

[AlexMoby]

I think I indulge myself should be accepted.

[gorgenyiz]

Why is not correct : I relax

[Magda835502]

Same question: why not use 'relax'? English is not my mothertongue therefor I don't sense the difference between 'to relax' and 'to make oneself comfortable' and when to use each of them correctly. Could anyone help out?

[NeilHutchi2]

My translation of 'I relax' ought to have been accepted (I knew what was being communicated but needed to nail the English rendering)