pannkaka
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]panna + kaka. Compare Danish pandekage, German Pfannkuchen.
Noun
[edit]pannkaka c
- a pancake (thin batter cake)
- pannkakor med sylt och grädde
- pancakes with jam and cream
- (colloquial) a flop, a fiasco (total failure)
- Det blev pannkaka av alltihop
- It all went to pot [was a total failure]
- (literally, “It became pancake of everything / Everything turned to pancake [idiomatic]”)
Usage notes
[edit]- American pancakes are more akin to thick, leavened plättar (though still usually called "amerikanska pannkakor" in Swedish).
- Often topped with cream or ice cream and/or jam.
- Sometimes had as a kind of dessert after pea soup (ärtsoppa), traditionally on a Thursday.
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | pannkaka | pannkakas |
| definite | pannkakan | pannkakans | |
| plural | indefinite | pannkakor | pannkakors |
| definite | pannkakorna | pannkakornas |