{"id":17231,"date":"2018-12-14T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17231"},"modified":"2018-12-14T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:22:28","slug":"just-keep-plugging-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17231","title":{"rendered":"Just keep plugging away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keep<\/p>\n

To plug away at something<\/strong> means “to move or work doggedly and persistently” [source<\/a>] or “to continue doing something even though it is difficult or boring” [source<\/a>], as in “He kept plugging away at his Russian, even though he didn’t seem to be making much progress.”<\/p>\n

I learnt this week that there is a similar expression in Swedish – att plugga<\/strong> – which means “to study, to bone up, to cram, to grind” [source<\/a>], and also “to plug, to stop with a plug; to read up, to study intensively, as in preparing for a test; to promote”, as in to plug a book [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

In my Swedish lessons, att plugga<\/strong> is defined as meaning “to study (anywhere, informal)”, while att studera<\/strong> means “to study (at university, formal)” [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

According to the bab.la dictionary<\/a> however, it seems that att plugga<\/strong> can also be used to refer to university studies.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n