sjumilaskog

Swedish

Etymology

sju +‎ mil +‎ -a- +‎ skog "seven-mile-forest", i.e. a forest at least 70 km across (a Swedish mile is 10 km).

Noun

sjumilaskog c

1. big forest

Usage notes

Often in fairy tales.

Declension

Declension of sjumilaskog

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sjumilaskog	sjumilaskogs
	definite	sjumilaskogen	sjumilaskogens
plural	indefinite	sjumilaskogar	sjumilaskogars
	definite	sjumilaskogarna	sjumilaskogarnas

Further reading

• sjumilaskog in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker