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I'm terribly disappointed that my favorite couch is missing, the Dromminge. Looks like this: https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960 https://offerup.com/item/

I'm terribly disappointed that my favorite couch is missing, the Dromminge. Looks like this: https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960 https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960 I still have mine, almost 20 years later. It's currently my 4yo's bed. What really surprised me though is that Ikea apparently has another item called Dromminge. It's a wall lamp that looks like a balloon: https://www.ikeaddict.com/ikeapedia/en/Product/40330895/ca-en/dromminge-wall-lamp-blue/Entry/ https://www.ikeaddict.com/ikeapedia/en/Product/40330895/ca-e... Why on earth would they recycle the name? Did they run out of Swedish words? What does it mean?

jagger27 5y ago
Google Translate says “dreaming”.
- ninjin 5y ago
  “Drömminge” is most likely a reference to a place outside of Värnamo in Småland [1]. As a native speaker (although not a linguist), my guess is that the name is derived from “Dröm” (dream), conjugated into “Drömma” (to dream), and then into “Drömminge” which with the “-inge” suffix turns it into a place name: “Place of dreaming”. [1]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Dr%C3%B6mminge#map=14/57.1466/14.1423 https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Dr%C3%B6mminge#ma...
- user-the-name 5y ago
  Google Translate, when encountering a word it does not know, will just pick something that it vaguely sounds like, or sometimes, make up an entirely new nonsense word. Do not, under any circumstances, trust Google Translate to give you a reasonable answer.
  - jagger27 5y ago
    Well that's pretty awful.
tablespoon 5y ago
> I'm terribly disappointed that my favorite couch is missing, the Dromminge. Looks like this: > https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960 https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960 On a slightly different topic, it sucks that Ikea seems to delete the information about discontinued products. They really should keep it online (with manuals, etc).
- Tepix 5y ago
  Ikea is evil

jagger27 5y ago

Google Translate says “dreaming”.

ninjin 5y ago
“Drömminge” is most likely a reference to a place outside of Värnamo in Småland [1]. As a native speaker (although not a linguist), my guess is that the name is derived from “Dröm” (dream), conjugated into “Drömma” (to dream), and then into “Drömminge” which with the “-inge” suffix turns it into a place name: “Place of dreaming”. [1]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Dr%C3%B6mminge#map=14/57.1466/14.1423 https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Dr%C3%B6mminge#ma...
user-the-name 5y ago
Google Translate, when encountering a word it does not know, will just pick something that it vaguely sounds like, or sometimes, make up an entirely new nonsense word. Do not, under any circumstances, trust Google Translate to give you a reasonable answer.
- jagger27 5y ago
  Well that's pretty awful.

tablespoon 5y ago

> I'm terribly disappointed that my favorite couch is missing, the Dromminge. Looks like this: > https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960 https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960 On a slightly different topic, it sucks that Ikea seems to delete the information about discontinued products. They really should keep it online (with manuals, etc).

Tepix 5y ago
Ikea is evil