This word of the day translates easily to English as ‘wagon’, but its wide use in compound words makes it a great Swedish word to have in your vocabulary. There are a number of idiomatic phrases which ...

It originates from the Old Swedish word iærn, which in turn comes from Old Norse járn, which has its roots in a Proto-Germanic word, the same word English iron and German Eisen come from. It can be ...

Today brought the news that Google has officially objected to one of the best words that has ever graced this planet: ogooglebar, which translates -- if such a glorious word must be subjugated to the ...

If your workouts have been feeling a little stale, look no further than the Swedes, you know, part of the Scandinavian group that made hygge a thing. They have a pretty genius way of mixing things up: ...

The 39 volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stands as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers... The final volume of a definitive Swedish ...