östdansk
Swedish
Etymology
Compound of öst (“east”) + dansk (“dane”).
For the humorous sense:
- Partly because the Swedish region Scania lies directly east of the Danish capital Copenhagen.
- Partly because it is a popular joke to say that the region is not part of Sweden, but instead a part of Denmark.
Noun
östdansk c
- An east Dane, an east Danish; something originating of eastern Denmark (a person, an object, a phenomenon, etc...).
- (humorous) synonym of skåning (“Scanian”)
- Synonym: reservdansk
- 2020 September 12, Rolf Gustavsson, “Min ungdoms bild av Ruhrområdet är passé [My youth's image of the Ruhr area is passé]”, in Svenska Dagbladet:
- I de tidiga tonåren gjorde jag min första riktiga utlandsresa. Familjens årliga dagsutflykt till Tivoli och Zoo räknas inte. Köpenhamn var ju inget utland för oss gamla östdanskar.
- In my early teens, I made my first real trip abroad. The family's annual day trip to Tivoli and Zoo does not count. Copenhagen was not a foreign country for us old Eastern Danes.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | östdansk | östdansks |
| definite | östdansken | östdanskens | |
| plural | indefinite | östdanskar | östdanskars |
| definite | östdanskarna | östdanskarnas |
See also
- östdanskt (“east-Danish”, adjective)