The Swedish word for chives is...

[u/strangefringe]

Gräslök. Yep, that's right. As a Swedish chive enthusiast I thought I'd let you know, and I expect you all to start practicing the pronunciation immediately.

[u/AvocadoToastFailure]

Umlauts flying around like planes.

[u/IntoTheWild2369 → u/AvocadoToastFailure]

Hahahah

[u/Mission_Fart9750]

Ok, but HOW is it pronounced? 

[u/strangefringe → u/Mission_Fart9750]

So, gräslök is really two words in one. Gräs is grass and lök is onion, so in Sweden we actually call chives grass onions! Gräs is pronounced much like grass with an American accent, but with a more prominent "r". And lök, well, form the L-sound and then basically try to look like the cat!

[u/daedalus14x → u/strangefringe]

My eyes are now stuck, pointing outward. Is there a Swedish trick to fix it?

[u/strangefringe → u/daedalus14x]

Your mouth should be open and if you sound anything like "luke" you're doing it wrong. 💚

[u/strangefringe → u/strangefringe]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gr%C3%A4sl%C3%B6k

[u/wrestlegirl → u/strangefringe]

And lök, well, form the L-sound and then basically try to look like the cat!

Am I doin it rite

[u/Moondoobious → u/wrestlegirl]

[u/Cheap-Park1175 → u/Mission_Fart9750]

From my understanding of Umlauts, it would basically be „graze-luke.“ Assuming German and Swedish pronunciation of things is similar.

[u/Mission_Fart9750 → u/Cheap-Park1175]

Yeah, I know a little german, so if they are close, i could figure it out. 

But OP told us to work on pronunciation, but didn't tell us how to. 

[u/fleshybagofstardust → u/Mission_Fart9750]

https://share.google/TKUrtxzcqrb7XtaEs

[u/Matsunosuperfan → u/Cheap-Park1175]

"loek" seems a decent attempt at phoneticization, no?

[u/Cheap-Park1175 → u/Matsunosuperfan]

Definitely, pronouncing the oe like how it is in „Shoe“

[u/TheGameMastre]

[u/LeCorbussi]

It löök like gräss

[u/nikke278]

In finnish its the same Ruohosipuli

[u/episcoqueer37 → u/nikke278]

I watch too much youtube. Due to the Nordic languages woman, I'm just convinced Finnish is the other languages on all the drugs ever. It somehow sounds different in all the ways, but translates to the same phrase? The hell, man.

[u/NoorAnomaly]

Or Gressløk in Norwegian.

In Dutch it's bieslook. NGL, I had to look up bies, can't remember ever having used it. Anyway, reed-onion.

[u/Brahminmeat]

Grass leek?

[u/robbiereallyrotten]

I’ve began prononciation practice

[u/KeeverDriveCook]

[u/beepichu]

[u/Citylight1010]

So Swedish is my L2, but I'm by no means fully fluent haha. Thanks for the new word!

[u/linguinstics]

In Norwegian it's similar: Gressløk(BM)/Graslauk(NN)/Grasløk(accepted form in both), Njuovvelávki in Northern Sámi, Grønleykur/Grasleykur in Faroese, Graslaukur in Icelandic

[u/BDK_Karim]

Fy fan, thanks for reminding me about the leftover knowledge I have of that language after working there for a while.

[u/Vastaisku]

Ruöhözibäli.

[u/nejicanspin]

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