The flavour is… just amazing! Smultronstrå Still about smultron, one of the best things one can ever do is what we call a smultronstrå – take a grass and put as many smultron as you can find and eat it al at once. The only thing that can be comparable with that is if you find a good place with wild kantareller, but that we can talk about around autumn again. So, finding a place – ställe – that is loaded with smultron, you can understand is like finding a golden egg goose. Smultron can be translated as “wild strawberry” And they are so small, you can’t really feel like you found enough of them. To find them though can be a bit challenging, cause insects and animals love them just as much. Well, smultron is not a berry that you can easily harvest, but you can find wild in the Swedish skog (forrest). But the size is part of the charm, I would say. You just wish it would be as big as a strawberry. It has a really strong aroma and is sweeter. Its taste is approximately as a strawberry, just that it is even better. If I try to describe it, I would say it looks like a very small strawberry, like one you couldn’t even believe is for real – but it is. Google translates that as strawberry but the word for strawberry in Swedish is actually jordgubbe and smultron is really another berry. Ställe means place and smultron, well, that’s harder to translate. To get to know what it means you need first to understand its components. We can at least try.Īmongst all Swedish idioms, smultronställe must be my favourite. I can’t find a good translation to any other language but the meaning of this post is to help you understand and not feel lost if they ever appear somewhere in your life again (who knows, right?). The Swedish language is loaded with such words. It’s such a shame sometimes, and this is one of these times. In all languages, there are some idiomatic expressions and words that you just can’t translate with the same semantics as the original word.
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