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Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]liksom
- make believe
- expressing that something should be otherwise than it is, allegedly, apparently
Conjunction
[edit]liksom
References
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]liksom
- Expressing that something should be otherwise than it is, allegedly, apparently
- Det skulle liksom snøa i dag, men det regnar.
- It was supposed to snow today, but it's raining.
- Filmen skulle liksom vera så bra, men eg likte han ikkje.
- The film was supposed to be so good, but I didn't like it.
- Det skulle liksom snøa i dag, men det regnar.
Conjunction
[edit]liksom
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “liksom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish lika som. By surface analysis, lika + som.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]liksom
- sort of, kind of
- 2009, Lars Winnerbäck, Jag får liksom ingen ordning (single):
- Jag får liksom ingen ordning på mitt liv
- I sort of can't sort out my life
- Han liksom haltade fram
- He sort of limped forward
- 2009, Lars Winnerbäck, Jag får liksom ingen ordning (single):
- (colloquial) like (as a filler)
- Filmen var liksom jättebra
- The movie was, like, super good
- Ja, men liksom, jag håller med helt!
- Yeah, but like, I fully agree!
- Aaa, men liksom!
- Yeeah, but (it is) like (that)! (emphatic agreement)
Conjunction
[edit]liksom
- as, like
- Synonym: som
- Älgen var stor liksom grannens skjul
- The moose was big like [like as] the neighbor's shed [bit more literary or old-fashioned sounding compared to "stor som grannens skjul" (big as the neighbor's shed)]
- Ty du skall bryta sönder deras bördors ok och deras skuldrors gissel och deras plågares stav, likasom i Midjans tid.
- For you shall break the yokes of their burdens and the scourge of their shoulders and the rod of their tormentor, as/like [like as] in the day of Midian. (Isaiah 9:4)
- as well as
- Jag har sett filmsnuttar på YouTube, liksom bilder publicerade i turkiska tidningar
- I have seen film clips on YouTube, as well as pictures published in Turkish newspapers
Usage notes
[edit](sense 1) can be understood as "like as," which is normally more or less synonymous with som (“as, like”), like in English. The intuition for (sense 2) is similar to "likewise" in English.
Synonyms
[edit]- likasom (dated)
See also
[edit]References
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