Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:16:43 GMT From: eliasnopsam.wineasy.se (Elias Granqvist) Subject: Re: My SAAB's name
"Robert Clark" <RobertDOTClarknopsamternet.com> wrote: >'svenska' is the Swedish word for 'Swedish' >RC Yes it is, but it can also mean "Swedish woman" (while a male Swede is a "svensk"). More often though, in case of a car named thus, I suppose she would be called "Svenskan" (= "the Swedish woman"). You can go on calling her (it) svenska, I think. Elias Granqvist (has Swedish as his mother's tongue)