i folkmun

Swedish

Etymology

i (“in”) +‎ folkmun (“"people-mouth," vernacular”)

Adverb

i folkmun (not comparable)

  1. in popular parlance, in the vernacular
    • 2018 April 15, Elin Sunnanängs, “Audition till SVT:s nya ungdomserie populär: 'Känns spännande'”, in Sveriges Television‎[1], archived from the original on 7 March 2025:
      I helgen har audition arrangerats till SVT:s nya ungdomsserie Eagles, som i folkmun kallas "den svenska versionen av Skam".
      This weekend, auditions were arranged for SVT's new youth series Eagles, which in popular parlance is known as "the Swedish version of Skam".
    • 2025 January 30, Kalle Lind, “Om Jules Sylvain”, in Sveriges Radio‎[2], archived from the original on 5 March 2025:
      Den svenska schlagerns anfader, mannen med tusen alias, i passet Stig Hansson, i folkmun Jules Sylvain.
      The forefather of Swedish schlager music, the man with a thousand aliases, in his passport he's Stig Hansson, in the vernacular Jules Sylvain.

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