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 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hjärnspöke hjärnspöket hjärnspöken hjärnspökena
Genitive hjärnspökes hjärnspökets hjärnspökens hjärnspökenas

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