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liten svampsoppa

English translation: small portion of mushroom soup

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Swedish term or phrase:liten svampsoppa
English translation:small portion of mushroom soup
Entered by: KEVIN QUINLAN (X)

07:04 Sep 15, 2004
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
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Swedish term or phrase: liten svampsoppa
Termen liten svampsoppa förekommer i en meny. Jag förstår inte riktigt hur det kan översättas? Tacksam för alla förslag
Meadow Media
Local time: 20:34
mushroom soup
Explanation:
Depends on what the soup actually consists of. Most Englishmen, I would guess, have never experienced eating fungus from a forest, as is common in Sweden. Most Englishmen, I think, generalise and call all fungus mushrooms. I think fungus soup would sound disgusting to most Englishmen.
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KEVIN QUINLAN (X)
Local time: 19:34
Grading comment
Well, it was the "liten" I wondered about. But it's probably true that it just means a small portion. Thanks all.
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Summary of answers provided
2 +6mushroom soup
KEVIN QUINLAN (X)
4 +2wild mushroom soup
Terence Ajbro
3soup with fungi
Christine Andersen
1below
George Hopkins


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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +6
mushroom soup


Explanation:
Depends on what the soup actually consists of. Most Englishmen, I would guess, have never experienced eating fungus from a forest, as is common in Sweden. Most Englishmen, I think, generalise and call all fungus mushrooms. I think fungus soup would sound disgusting to most Englishmen.

KEVIN QUINLAN (X)
Local time: 19:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2
Grading comment
Well, it was the "liten" I wondered about. But it's probably true that it just means a small portion. Thanks all.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Andersen: I call them 'forest fungi' or specify the 'chantrelles', 'oyster mushrooms', 'ceps' etc. t o make them sound more attractive!
12 mins
agree  George Hopkins
17 mins
agree  ohemulen: I think "liten" is used here as a quaint little addition. It doesn´t need to be translated.
19 mins
agree  Mario Marcolin: What you get is probably a small portion of mushroom soup :)
1 hr
agree  Lisa Frideborg Eddy (X)
4 hrs
agree  LinguaLab.net: you could translate "liten" as well, and say something like "small serving of mushroom soup"
6 hrs
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
wild mushroom soup


Explanation:
Straight from the forest, yummy!

Terence Ajbro
Sweden
Local time: 19:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Angela Valenti (X)
1 min
  -> Många tack!
agree  cologne
1 hr
  -> thanks Jane
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
soup with fungi


Explanation:
I would simply drop the 'liten'.

At this time of year it is of course the season for exciting, more lor less wild, fungi, 'forest fungi', or the various specific sorts which have to be defined individually.

Most of these are served with the later courses, not as soup, in my experience, but you do get very delicious 'tragtkantareller' in Sweden which are lovely in soup.

The classic is 'cream of mushroom soup', but I would then expect the Swedish to call the main ingredient 'champinjon'.



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Note added at 30 mins (2004-09-15 07:34:22 GMT)
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My English book on fungi gives no common name for the \'tragtkantareller\' and classifies them as \'rare\', so they are probably not used here.

Fungi or forest fungi are much prized by anyone who has tried them!

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 19:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 11
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
below


Explanation:
small-mushroom soup, or, small mushroom-soup.
No, I'm only joking.
The correct answer is of course, mushroom soup.

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Note added at 2 hrs 41 mins (2004-09-15 09:45:29 GMT)
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\"liten\" refers most likely to a small portion of soup.

George Hopkins
Local time: 19:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 10
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