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Does that literally translate to oil fund?

• jjtheblunt 5y ago
  olje = oil fond = fund -et is the definite article "the", which in Scandinavian can be appended thus "the oil fund"
  • dehrmann 5y ago
    Guess that makes the slightly different Olfondet "the beer fund?"
    • jjtheblunt 5y ago
      i think someone stole your umlaut!
  • dehrmann 5y ago
    > -et is the definite article "the", which in Scandinavian can be appended Ohh, I've seen this a lot. Huset, systembolaget, etc. That makes sense.
    • jjtheblunt 5y ago
      -en and -et for genders ... it's quite neat. confer hjaelm (helmet) with helmet in english, and you can see it seems to still show through in modern English, in random spots of course.
• qw 5y ago
  Most people call it that, but the fund’s formal name is the Government Pension Fund Global