hjärnspöke

Swedish

Etymology

hjärna (“brain”) +‎ spöke (“ghost”)

Noun

hjärnspöke n

  1. an (often threatening) unreasonable belief based solely on one's thoughts and feelings, a figment of the imagination, a bogeyman, a fantasy
    Det utländska hotet var ett hjärnspöke
    The foreign threat was a figment of their imagination
    Subversiva grupper som arbetar i lönndom och andra hjärnspöken
    Subversive groups working in secret and other bogeymen

Declension

Declension of hjärnspöke
nominative genitive
singular indefinite hjärnspöke hjärnspökes
definite hjärnspöket hjärnspökets
plural indefinite hjärnspöken hjärnspökens
definite hjärnspökena hjärnspökenas

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