evighet

Definitioner

eternity; all senses of the word

common-gender

Ekvivalenter

Exempel

“Det kommer ta en evighet”

It will take forever [hyperbolic, idiomatic]

“Det var evighetssekunder. Tre korta⟳ andetag. Hela⟳ livet vände. Vem valde? Inte jag. Jag hörde ord från mina läppar som aldrig vilat i min mun. Tankar aldrig tänkta, som nya väggar i ett rum.”

It was seconds of eternity. Three short breaths. My whole life ["the whole life" – Swedish often prefers to express possession by putting a noun in the definite instead of with a separate possessive pronoun] turned around. Who chose? Not me. I heard words from my lips that had [implied from vilat (“rested”) being supine] never rested in my mouth. Thoughts never thought, like new walls in a room.

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