\nsom \u00e4r som sig b\u00f6r (f\u00f6r att passa f\u00f6r ett visst \u00e4ndam\u00e5l), l\u00e4mplig, passande; medelm\u00e5ttig, medelstor, medelbred, medelgod osv., av normal storlek, styrka osv., normal.<\/p>\n
which is as it should (to suit a particular purpose), appropriate, appropriate; mediocre, medium, medium-width, average good, etc., of normal size,. strength, etc., normal<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLagom<\/strong> is apparently the basis of the Swedish national psyche, which emphasises consensus, equality, modesty and avoidance of extremes.<\/p>\nAccording to Mattias Persson, the word lagom<\/em> itself actually means “for the law”, or “within the boundaries of the law”, that is, what is normal or according to normal customs. It is a dative case (indirect object) form from lag<\/em> (law).<\/p>\nIs less more? Are you a minimalist?<\/p>\n
Are there words in other languages that have similar meanings to lagom<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Swedish idioms I learnt recently is lagom \u00e4r b\u00e4st, which is translated as “less is more”, “enough is as good as a feast” or “there is virtue in moderation”, and literally means something like “the right amount is best”. Lagom [l\u0251\u02d0\u0261\u0254m] is a word that is supposedly untranslatable. It is variously defined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070","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=18070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18088,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070\/revisions\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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