• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Ogräs in swedish, gräs is herb and the O is like making it not-grass.

    Röka gräs is smoking weed though so suddenly it’s getting the good treatment.

    • TaTTe@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Herb is ört in Swedish. Gräs is better translated as grass, so ogräs is non-grass. This also enables a funny way to insult someone’s lawn – since lawn is gräsmatta (grass carpet) – by calling it an ogräsmatta.