My fiancee is Swedish, so this quiz was pretty easy, but since so many of the quizzes are very strict with English words and spelling, should not the currency be "crown?" When I wrote "crown," it was not even deemed acceptable. Krona is a Swedish word and can be acceptable, but in English it is a crown. When I speak English with her friends, crown is the word I use and they likewise say crown back.
It may sound like they saw "crown", but they may actually be saying "Krone". Krone is the Danish currency, and I'm not sure which the other Scandinavian countries use. I've never heard anything other than Krona. I don't believe that any currency is changed when speaking in English. Peso isn't an English word, neither is Franc, or Rupee, but those are the words used in English.
Crown should probably be accepted as an answer, but in all official English contexts the term goes untranslated and personally I have never heard it referred to in English as anything but krona. I think the most accurate answer here is krona.
I can confirm that when Danes are speaking to foreigners we will always say 'crown'. I don't even know what the right English pronunciation of 'krone' would be. So I would definitely say it is translated when speaking English, at least in Scandinavia
I live in an English speaking country and the suburb next to mine is called St Lucia. The English-speaking nation of St Lucia is referred to as just that in its official language, not St Lucy. I don't think this is a translation issue.
I’ve checked the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran Calendars of Saints and all of them give the Feast of Saint *Lucy*. Lucia is the Latin/Italian version of her name and while that may have been her original name we don’t use Saint Petrus, Saint Paulus, Saint Maria but rather the modern English equivalent (for English speakers of course)!
Ugh typed molmo (think that might.be how we write it). And did a single random guess for the saint and guessed lucius. No idea where that came from! Dont know any saints besides nicholas.
I've been to Sweden twice and I'm only 13 (and an American)! The first one doesn't exactly count because I went to the Swedish embassy to the United States
Seems to me like these European country quizzes are way harder than most of the African and Asian, etc country quizzes (which are often comically simple). Like we are expected to know much more specific and esoteric information about Europe.
Anyway, I'm sure the Bergmans are related. I mean, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins.
English isn't famous for being consistent of course, so we have e.g. pounds in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria etc, but lira in Turkey, formerly Italy etc.
- A Finn
Anyway, I'm sure the Bergmans are related. I mean, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are 8th cousins.