sörgårdsidyll
Swedish
Etymology
Sörgården (“South farm”) + idyll, used since 1976, from the realistic name of a fictional homestead, which is the theme and title of a Swedish primary school textbook by Anna Maria Roos from 1912.
Noun
sörgårdsidyll c
- a pastoral, idyllic state of affairs, a paradise
- Förvisso har till exempel Paris invandrarförorter problem som får de stockholmska att framstå som sörgårdsidyller.
- By all means, places like the immigrant suburbs of Paris have problems that make those in Stockholm seem like a pastoral paradise.
- Ändå känner hon inte igen sig i bilden av skolan som väldigt vandaliserad [...] Då måste de andra skolorna vara rena sörgårdsidyllen.
- Still she doesn't recognize the image of a much vandalized school [...] If so, the other schools must be idyllic havens.
- Förvisso har till exempel Paris invandrarförorter problem som får de stockholmska att framstå som sörgårdsidyller.
Declension
| Declension of sörgårdsidyll | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | sörgårdsidyll | sörgårdsidyllen | sörgårdsidyller | sörgårdsidyllerna |
| Genitive | sörgårdsidylls | sörgårdsidyllens | sörgårdsidyllers | sörgårdsidyllernas |
Related terms
- sörgårdsromantik
References
- sörgårdsidyll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- sörgårdsidyll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.
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