{"id":17698,"date":"2019-04-06T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17698"},"modified":"2019-04-06T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T12:08:22","slug":"det-knallar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17698","title":{"rendered":"Det knallar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Swedish phrases I learnt this week was <strong>Det knallar!<\/strong>, which means &#8220;it&#8217;s okay; it&#8217;s business as usual&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/1135113\/swedish-4\/7\/\">source<\/a>] or literally &#8220;it bangs \/ crashes \/ pops&#8221;. I like the sound of it, so thought I&#8217;d write about it.<\/p>\n<p>The verb <strong>knalla<\/strong> means to bang, crash or pop [<a href=\"https:\/\/ne.ord.se\/ordbok\/svenska\/engelska\/s%C3%B6k\/knalla\">source<\/a>], and <strong>knall<\/strong> means bang, crash, pop [<a href=\"https:\/\/ne.ord.se\/ordbok\/svenska\/engelska\/s%C3%B6k\/knall\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Related words and expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>knalleffekt = bombshell, sensation, sensational effect<\/li>\n<li>knallgul = bright yellow<\/li>\n<li>knallr\u00f6d = bright \/ vivid red<\/li>\n<li>knallhatt = percussion cap<\/li>\n<li>knallskott = jumping jack \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jumping_jack_(toy)\">quockerwodger<\/a><\/li>\n<li>det knallar och g\u00e5r = I&#8217;m jogging along, I&#8217;m managing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is it used in any other interesting expressions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Swedish phrases I learnt this week was Det knallar!, which means &#8220;it&#8217;s okay; it&#8217;s business as usual&#8221; [source] or literally &#8220;it bangs \/ crashes \/ pops&#8221;. I like the sound of it, so thought I&#8217;d write about it. The verb knalla means to bang, crash or pop [source], and knall means bang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/17698","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=17698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}