Crime novels are often Swedish crime novels
The English word crime seems to be sometimes used in Swedish. For example, I see John Ajvide Lindqvist described as Horror and crime writer. Can we use the word? crime in a message text in Swedish?
Kenneth
crime is a short form of Crime stories and is sometimes used in Swedish texts to refer to the commonly mentioned genre of fiction Detective story. The genre includes, for example, suspense novels, crime novels, crime novels and thrillers.
Swedish booksellers often use just Detective story or Crime novels and crime novels as a name for this genre. In many cases such an exchange would be possible crime against Detective story.
If you want to use crimeperhaps because you feel that the word fills a gap in the Swedish language, so you should be able to clarify what you mean, especially if you are writing for a wide audience, for example in a news text.
Then there is the word Crimea in Swedish (in English true crime), but it refers to literature that depicts real-life criminal cases, as opposed to Detective story This is a kind of fiction genre.
Karin Webjörn
Islamic for what concerns Islam
What does the adjective stand for? Islam? And when to use Muslim?
Adam
The adjective to Islam Is Islamic. The shape Islamic is also true, but not as common.
The word is often used Muslim in the same sense as Islamic (or Islamic), especially about people, for example Muslim groups, Muslim population, Muslim women.
By the word Assemblywhich can refer to both a group of people and an organizational unit Muslim community the more established expression. In combination with Holidays Is Muslim holidays also the established expression.
In other cases the word is Islamic about as common as Muslim for example in media texts Islamic law, Islamic era.
Alma Hjertén Soltancharkari
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