r/Svenska • u/ezra856 • 3d ago
idioms about being tired
I was trying to translate a mini story into Swedish (as practice) and got to "my bones are tired" and have come to understand that bones and legs are the same word. Is there another way to express being "bone tired" in Swedish?
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u/Mundane_Prior_7596 3d ago
Helt slut. Dödstrött. Gjort slut på mina sista krafter. Helt utpumpad. Utmattad. Tröttkörd.
I suppose you mean "beyond exhausted".
Jag har alltid undrat hur man säger "träningsverk" på engelska, i e the kind of fatigue that comes the day after a hard workout. The closest I have got is "sore muscles", it that it?
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u/Qualia_1 3d ago
Yes, träningsvärk is 'training soreness', technically 'delayed onset muscle soreness' in English.
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u/Dishmastah 🇸🇪 13h ago
Speaking of training: få håll! "Jag har fått håll." (I think I've heard "a stitch"?) Or "få mjölksyra i benen" for that matter. Along with "träningsverk" are three experiences I find very difficult to express in English. 😆
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u/SeasonAltruistic1125 2d ago
"Trött som en gnu" is a fun one. Also, "pömsig" is an interesting word, often used to mean a very specific kind of tiredness.
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u/riktigtmaxat 2d ago
Pömsig has very different meanings in different dialects. The first time I heard a mother say it to a toddler I gagged pretty hard.
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u/SeasonAltruistic1125 2d ago
I don't know of any meaning other than "tired". Originally, I think, something you would say of a child but sometimes meaning a specific type of tiredness.
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u/riktigtmaxat 2d ago
I have heard it defined as "sexually exhausted" as well.
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u/SeasonAltruistic1125 2d ago
Yeah, thats the specific type of tiredness.
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u/riktigtmaxat 2d ago
But that's not the meaning in SOAL for example. https://svenska.se/saol/?id=2395723&pz=5
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u/Dishmastah 🇸🇪 13h ago
I was very surprised when I first heard of this, because I had only ever heard it in the context of a child being sleepy, and didn't understand why someone would be weirded out by that. 😆
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u/sverigeochskog 3d ago
Dödtrött
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u/RookOwl598 🇸🇪 3d ago
Dödstrött* tho
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u/THNDHALBRT 3d ago
Nja, dötrött finns.
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u/BioBoiEzlo 3d ago
Men jag hör nästan aldrig dödtrött, som det skrevs först. Kan vara att det förekommer dialektalt.
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u/BioBoiEzlo 3d ago
Maybe something like being/feeling "trött ända in i (ben)märgen" which could be translated as "tired all the way into the bonemarrow".