No. 3,516 in Swedish

drömmen

"The dream."

In a sentence

Drömmen är att resa jorden runt.
The dream is to travel around the world.
Here, 'drömmen' is used as a subject noun representing the concept of an aspiration or goal.
Han lever drömmen med sitt nya jobb.
He lives the dream with his new job.
In this sentence, 'drömmen' functions as a direct object noun indicating an idealized or fulfilled situation.
Den här platsen är som drömmen.
This place is like the dream.
Here, 'drömmen' is used as part of a simile to describe something that is ideal or perfect, often in a metaphorical sense.

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