sörgårdsidyll

Swedish

Etymology

Sörgården (“South farm”) +‎ idyll, used since 1976, from the realistic name of a fictional homestead, which is the theme and title of a Swedish primary school textbook by Anna Maria Roos from 1912.

Noun

sörgårdsidyll c

1. a pastoral, idyllic state of affairs, a paradise

   Förvisso har till exempel Paris invandrarförorter problem som får de stockholmska att framstå som sörgårdsidyller.

   By all means, places like the immigrant suburbs of Paris have problems that make those in Stockholm seem like a pastoral paradise.

   Ändå känner hon inte igen sig i bilden av skolan som väldigt vandaliserad [...] Då måste de andra skolorna vara rena sörgårdsidyllen.

   Still she doesn't recognize the image of a much vandalized school [...] If so, the other schools must be idyllic havens.

Declension

Declension of sörgårdsidyll

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sörgårdsidyll	sörgårdsidylls
	definite	sörgårdsidyllen	sörgårdsidyllens
plural	indefinite	sörgårdsidyller	sörgårdsidyllers
	definite	sörgårdsidyllerna	sörgårdsidyllernas

Related terms

• sörgårdsromantik

References

• sörgårdsidyll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sörgårdsidyll in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)