"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/27/2017 at 16:09 • Filed to: Volvo, V90, Swedish, Herrgård
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/27/2017 at 16:09 • Filed to: Volvo, V90, Swedish, Herrgård | 5
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The Swedish for estate/wagon is, rather wonderfully, “herrgårdsvagn” which literally means “estate vehicle” or “mansion vehicle”.
As Volvo Cars’ Swedish site puts it:
Herrgårdsvagnen från Volvo är en ikon i bilvärlden
Estatecars from Volvo are an icon in thecarworld (yes, thecarworld. They like their compoundnouns in Scandinavia).
Have an ikon.
Also, have a herrgård. Once private houses of baronial splendour, they tend to be hotels nowadays.
AfromanGTO
> Cé hé sin
03/27/2017 at 16:56 |
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Something that I learned in Sweden if your house had a certain number of rooms it was considered a palace. So is a herrgård considered a palace or just a mansion?
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Cé hé sin
> AfromanGTO
03/27/2017 at 17:48 |
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That would depend on which herrgård you had in mind....
Most of them aren’t that big as stately homes go. The one in the picture would be typical.
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AfromanGTO
> Cé hé sin
03/27/2017 at 17:54 |
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That makes sense. The one I stayed in that my cousins have is larger than that one. They told me it is 1 bedroom away from being considered a palace. The close as I can come to relating would be a large mansion.