{"id":24,"date":"2008-07-18T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-07-18T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T16:05:02","slug":"sommarstangt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/sommarstangt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sommarst\u00e4ngt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/bus-strike-spreads-to-vasterbotten\/\" target=\"_blank\">bus strike<\/a> ended very quietly last Tuesday night, or Wednesday morning, depending on when you go to bed. Our dull and mundane reality has returned even duller and more mundane, if that\u2019s at all possible. And why is that so? It\u2019s July and that means that everything is closed. You think I\u2019m exaggerating when I say \u201c<em>everything<\/em>\u201d? Ha! Think again! Here are some pictures I took during my lunchtime stroll today. And those were taken just within my local shopping center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/sommarstangt-3.jpg\" aria-label=\"Sommarstangt 3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/sommarstangt-3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Closed for the summer!<em><br \/>\nOn June 11th we&#8217;re closing at 5PM to open again August 11th. Welcome back!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/apoteket.jpg\" aria-label=\"Apoteket\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/apoteket.jpg\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>See? I wasn\u2019t making things up, even our neighborhood pharmacy is closed for summer vacation. Everyone is \u201c<strong>p\u00e5 semester<\/strong>\u201d. Oddly enough that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re busy studying for their final exams, as a semester in English might imply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/semester.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s another one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/beware-of-false-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\">false friends<\/a>. \u201c<strong>Semester<\/strong>\u201d in Swedish means vacation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>semester<\/strong> (noun, def. <strong>semestern<\/strong>, plural: <strong>semestrar<\/strong>) \u2013 <strong>tid n\u00e4r man \u00e4r ledig fr\u00e5n jobbet men \u00e4nd\u00e5 f\u00e5r betalt<\/strong> &#8211; time when a person is off from work but gets paid anyway, in other words \u2013 vacation!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this confuses English speakers a little bit (or sometimes more than a little bit), because \u201csemester\u201d in English (especially in American English) definitely has nothing to do with vacations whatsoever. It confuses Swedish speakers, too. Some mistakenly assume it has the same meaning in both languages, and then you listen to them explain that no, you can\u2019t see the doctor, because \u201cshe\u2019s on semester\u201d.  And you\u2019re left to figure out the meaning for yourself.<br \/>\nSo how do we say semester in Swedish? It\u2019s \u201c<strong>termin<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>termin<\/strong> (noun, def. <strong>terminen<\/strong>, plural: <strong>terminer<\/strong>) \u2013 <strong>del av ett l\u00e4s\u00e5r, till exempel: h\u00f6sttermin, eller v\u00e5rtermin<\/strong> \u2013 part of a school year, for example: fall semester (term) or spring semester (term)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/hotell-wasa.jpg\" aria-label=\"Hotell Wasa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/hotell-wasa.jpg\"><\/a>But let\u2019s talk about summer vacations again. While I\u2019m not sure how it works in the Capital of Scandinavia (a.k.a. Stockholm) because I\u2019m not there that often in July, but here in the north, \u201c<strong>semester<\/strong>\u201d is taken very, very seriously. Even one of the hotels downtown is closed this month for vacation. Which I guess just shows you that I don\u2019t exactly live in a top tourist destination in Sweden. As you can see in the photo, Hotel Wasa is <strong>sommarst\u00e4ngt<\/strong> &#8211; closed for the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2008\/07\/hotell-wasa.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>The bus strike ended very quietly last Tuesday night, or Wednesday morning, depending on when you go to bed. Our dull and mundane reality has returned even duller and more mundane, if that\u2019s at all possible. And why is that so? It\u2019s July and that means that everything is closed. 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