tänk blommor

English translation: tänk! blommor!

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Swedish term or phrase:tänk blommor
English translation:tänk! blommor!
Entered by: Cristian Iscrulescu

17:20 Feb 13, 2007
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Poetry & Literature / Tove Jansson - Pappan och havet
Swedish term or phrase: tänk blommor
Pappan öppnade ögonen och ryste till. Han pressade ryggen och tassarna mot stenväggen, där växte mycket små vita blommor i bergets sprickor, tänk blommor. Och i den bredaste sprickan lyste röd rost, där låg en nyckel, en tung nyckel av järn.

Jag kan inte förstå det här. Kan interpunktionen vara fel? Det enda jag kan komma på är att det borde ha stått: Tänk! Blommor. (dvs. Tänk dig att det skulle finnas blommor där!)

Hur ska det tolkas?
A. Petrunova
Bulgaria
Local time: 23:28
tänk! blommor!
Explanation:
I think you are right to suspect a punctuation error. After all, in Swedish compounds are spelled without blanks or hyphens (unlike in English), so if it had been a compound it would have been "tänkblommor".
One more argument - compounds where "tänk" occurs very often have the linking element "e", as in "tänkesätt", which is not the case with your "compound".
Just a thought - I think you are on the right track assuming punctuation is missing.
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Cristian Iscrulescu
United States
Local time: 13:28
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4 +2tänk! blommor!
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tänk! blommor!


Explanation:
I think you are right to suspect a punctuation error. After all, in Swedish compounds are spelled without blanks or hyphens (unlike in English), so if it had been a compound it would have been "tänkblommor".
One more argument - compounds where "tänk" occurs very often have the linking element "e", as in "tänkesätt", which is not the case with your "compound".
Just a thought - I think you are on the right track assuming punctuation is missing.

Cristian Iscrulescu
United States
Local time: 13:28
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you all!

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