{"id":2353,"date":"2010-12-27T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2010-12-27T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T14:44:00","slug":"short-wordskortord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/short-wordskortord\/","title":{"rendered":"Short words\/Kortord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>rea = realisation<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is the Swedish word for\u00a0the English word\u00a0<em>sale.<\/em> If you ask me, I think this is when actually the &#8220;real prices&#8221; are carried out or let\u00b4s say implemented<em>.<\/em> Who are they fooling???<\/p>\n<p><strong>bil = automobil eng. automobile\/car<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Self-propelled is the original meaning of this word. A Danish newspaper used the Scandinavian short-word for this word in 1902 for the first time. Compare it with\u00a0French <em>auto<\/em>.\u00a0It is a myth that the word was cut into : auto\/mo\/bil in different languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>el = elektricitet eng. electricity<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is just a short and common word for electricity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>biff = bifalla eng. to approve<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>sv. &#8220;Saken \u00e4r biff&#8221; eng. It\u00b4s done&#8221;. It is a military expression from the beginning. When a document for an application\u00a0was approved by the military in Sweden, you could read BIF on the paper. BIF\u00a0stand for <em>bifallen<\/em> i.e. approved. It is a common expression nowadays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0bio=biograf eng. cinema\/movie<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the Greek words <em>bio<\/em> which means <em>life<\/em> and <em>grafein<\/em> which means <em>skriva<\/em>. The word biograph was the first ever projector made for showing moving pictures. So a <em>biograf<\/em> is a place where they have both license and a projector to be able to show films for the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>ex. = ett exemplar eng. a copy<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>* <\/strong>note that short words like <strong>ex. <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0el.<\/strong>\u00a0is not equal with shortenings like <strong>t.ex.<\/strong> <em>till exempel<\/em> eng.<em> for example<\/em>. They are two different words. <em>Ett exemplar<\/em> and <em>ett exempel<\/em>. This is also true to <strong>el<\/strong> and <strong>el.<\/strong> because the first one is a short and common\u00a0word\u00a0for electricity (as above mentioned)\u00a0while the other one is a shortening for <em>eller<\/em>\u00a0English\u00b4s <em>or<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 rea = realisation\u00a0 It is the Swedish word for\u00a0the English word\u00a0sale. 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