Wednesday 6 December, 2023

You need to hear this Swedish city's very strange word for 'yes'

It makes no sense. You’ll love it.

THE SWEDISH FOR ‘yes’ is ‘ja’, but the people of the city of Umea have an entirely different, extremely unique word for it.

So unique, it’s not even a word at all.

The Local Europe went to investigate:

Ssssshuuu. Shhhuuu. We like it.

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Valerie Loftus

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