Här beskrivs svenskans ’som’ & engelskan

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som	who-which-that	relativt pronomen tillbakasyftande  ersättningsord syftar på närmast föregående substantiv...	MEG §2.34—39 H  §62-64, 66-67 E/G §140-151 EUG 245-259, 202 B
som	as	konjunktion bindeord  jämförelser,  jämförelsebisatser	MEG §7.2 b H §208 E/G §284, 289 EUG 374 A
som	as	konjunktion  bindeord tid	MEG §7.2c H §203 E/G §289
som	as - like "It looks like rain." "She was as tall as her father." "He was not so tall as his uncle." "He ate like a horse."	preposition  ord som sätts före substantiv eller ing-form och bildar  prepositionsuttryck	MEG §8.5 H  §221
som	"She doesn't know what goes on inside." "I don't know what people live there."	'som'  utan motsvarighet i engelskan...        Svenska ’som’ då det saknar motsvarighet i engelskan kan vara "rätt klurigt".	MEG §2.45,  §6.7 D (A?) E/G §149, §289 Anm 5,  §32 Anm 1 EUG 215  C,  374, 239, 438 B

 

 

 

 

 

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When translated (the following sentences) into Swedish, you should look for the word  'som':

 

"When in Rome do as the Romans do."

 

Some things are not as valuable as they appear to be.
(="All that glitters is not gold.")

 

What is pleasing to one person may not be pleasing to another.
("One man's gravy is another man's poison.")

"Nothing hurts like the truth."
(= It is painful to discover an unpleasant truth about oneself.)

 

"You reap what you sow."
(= The amount of effort you put into something determines how much you will get out of it.)

 

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
(= Don't hurt someone who takes care of you.)

 

"Clothes do not make the man."
(= A person should not be judged by the clothes he or she wears.)

 

"He who hesitates is lost."
(= A person who doesn't act decisively is unlikely to succeed.)

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NB.

as good as gold, as well as, as much as;  adverb

as (= since, while, because, even,  for instance);   conjunction

as ( that, who, which: especially after 'such' and 'the same');  relative pronoun

as (in the role,  function, or status of = all so, quite so, quite as, as);   preposition

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E/G = Elfstrand/Gabrielson

H  =  Hargeviks engelska grammatik

MEG = Modern engelsk grammatik, Svartvik-Sager

EUG = Engelsk universitetsgrammatik, Svartvik-Sager

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