{"id":16830,"date":"2018-10-03T13:39:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:39:59","slug":"jasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16830","title":{"rendered":"Jas\u00e5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/jasa.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Jas\u00e5!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An interesting Swedish word I learned recently is <strong>jas\u00e5<\/strong> [\u02c8jas\u0254]. It is described by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jas%C3%A5#Swedish\">Wiktionary<\/a> as an &#8216;expression of mild surprise&#8217;, and can be translated as &#8216;indeed, so, well then, oh, well, ah, huh&#8217;. So it&#8217;s quite a useful little word.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of how it&#8217;s used (from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/jas%C3%A5\">bab.la<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, s\u00e5 du vill g\u00e5 i skolan h\u00e4r? = Oh, so you really want to go to school here?<\/li>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, du vill prata om det? = Oh, you want to talk about that?<\/li>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, vi skakade av oss dem? = Oh, we lost them, did we?<\/li>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, du \u00e4r h\u00e4r nu igen. = So you&#8217;re back again?<\/li>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, n\u00e5gon annan. = Well, I&#8217;m someone else.<\/li>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, du vill leka. = Oh, you wanna play?<\/li>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, minsann?? = Oh, do you now?<\/li>\n<li>Jas\u00e5, verkligen? = Oh really?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Equivalents in Danish appear to be <strong>\u00e5h<\/strong>, <strong>n\u00e5<\/strong>, <strong>n\u00e5h<\/strong> and <strong>tja<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What equivalent words are there in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Swedish word I learned recently is jas\u00e5 [\u02c8jas\u0254]. It is described by Wiktionary as an &#8216;expression of mild surprise&#8217;, and can be translated as &#8216;indeed, so, well then, oh, well, ah, huh&#8217;. So it&#8217;s quite a useful little word. Here are some examples of how it&#8217;s used (from bab.la): Jas\u00e5, s\u00e5 du vill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,10,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}