{"id":18286,"date":"2019-09-13T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18286"},"modified":"2019-09-14T19:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T19:22:42","slug":"tender-fondness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18286","title":{"rendered":"Tender fondness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish word I learnt this week is <strong>\u00f6m<\/strong> [\u0153m], which sounds a bit like errm in English, or however you write it, and means gentle, tender, sore, sensitive or fond. I just like the sound of it, and it&#8217;s compactness.<\/p>\n<p>Related words and expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00f6m punkt<\/strong> = a sore point or a raw nerve, as in <strong>Detta \u00e4r en \u00f6m punkt f\u00f6r mig<\/strong> (That is a sore point for me).<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00f6mhet<\/strong> = affection, gentleness, soreness or tenderness<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00f6mhetsbetygelse<\/strong> = endearment, showing of endearment<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00f6mka<\/strong> = to feel sorry for sb<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00f6mkan<\/strong> = a pity party<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00f6mkansv\u00e4rd<\/strong> = pitiful<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00f6mma<\/strong> = to ache<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00f6mma f\u00f6r<\/strong> = to feel compassion for<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, <strong>\u00f6m<\/strong> should not be confused with <strong>om<\/strong> [\u0254m], which means if, that, whether, about, for, on, by and a few other things. Accents are important.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/%C3%B6m\">bab.la<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%C3%B6m\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish word I learnt this week is \u00f6m [\u0153m], which sounds a bit like errm in English, or however you write it, and means gentle, tender, sore, sensitive or fond. I just like the sound of it, and it&#8217;s compactness. Related words and expressions include: \u00f6m punkt = a sore point or a raw [&hellip;]<\/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-18286","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\/18286","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=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18289,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions\/18289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}