No. 12,186 in Swedish

räven

"Räven" means "the fox" in English.

In a sentence

Räven smög försiktigt genom skogen.
The fox sneaked carefully through the forest.
In this sentence, 'räven' is used as the subject of the sentence and refers to 'the fox'.
Vi såg räven nära huset igår.
We saw the fox near the house yesterday.
Here, 'räven' is the object of the sentence, indicating 'the fox' seen by the subject.
Ett gammalt talesätt är: 'Räven ser vad du gömmer.'
An old saying is: 'The fox sees what you hide.'
In this expression, 'räven' is used metaphorically to represent cleverness or intuition attributed to 'the fox'.

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