sjumilaskog

Swedish

Etymology

sju +‎ mil +‎ -a- +‎ skog "seven-mile-forest", i.e. a forest at least 70 km across (a Swedish mile is 10 km).

Noun

sjumilaskog c

1. big forest

Usage notes

Often in fairy tales.

Declension

Declension of sjumilaskog
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sjumilaskog	sjumilaskogen	sjumilaskogar	sjumilaskogarna
Genitive	sjumilaskogs	sjumilaskogens	sjumilaskogars	sjumilaskogarnas

Further reading

• sjumilaskog in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker