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smultronställe

SMULL-tron-stell-eh[ˈsmɵltrɔnˌstɛlːɛ]

your own wild-strawberry place: the spot you would rather not share

Closest in English: hideaway, haunt, bolthole. None of them covers it.

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The story

Smultron are the tiny wild strawberries you find in a clearing and tell nobody about, and the word slid from the patch to any place you keep for yourself. Bergman borrowed it for a film title in 1957. English has to go to the pub for it and say your local haunt.

How it went in the game

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  1. Which language is it from?Swedish
  2. What does it literally say?Wild-strawberry-place
  3. Where would you hear it?A bend in the river you go back to
  4. What does it mean?A private spot you keep to yourself

How it went

Harder than most words so far.

Round one, language, was where most points went.

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