[Image description: a perfectly round peeled bulb of garlic on a cutting board, with unpeeled normal cloves behind it.]

  • expr
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    5 months ago

    What’s the difference between “vitlök” and “vit lök”?

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      “vitlök” - garlic

      “vit lök” - “white onion”

      White onions does not exist.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      one is a word, the other is a word with a descriptor in front of it. like greenhouse vs green house, one means a building made of glass where you grow stuff, the other is a house painted the colour green.