Olof is working, Petra is sleeping, Tage is watching TV, Lydia is playing at a friend’s house, and me … how am I making use of this unexpected bit of free time? Not at all well, I’m afraid. I could be reading or writing or cooking or cleaning or performing any number of worthwhile tasks, but alas, jag bara orkar inte.<\/em><\/p>\n The Swedish verb att orka<\/em> is one of those that doesn’t translate well at all to English. I could say, “I don’t feel like it,” or “I don’t have the energy,” or simply, “I can’t,” but none of those really captures the meaning of “jag orkar inte.”<\/em> The lack of a good translation is really a shame.<\/p>\n Och mer \u00e4n s\u00e5 orkar jag inte f\u00f6rklara.<\/p>\n *And I don’t <\/em>orka to explain it in any more detail.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Olof is working, Petra is sleeping, Tage is watching TV, Lydia is playing at a friend’s house, and me … how am I making use of this unexpected bit of free time? Not at all well, I’m afraid. I could be reading or writing or cooking or cleaning or performing any number of worthwhile tasks,… Read More Language Lesson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}