Re: Swedish sambos

On Sep 3, 3:42 am, retrosorter <hrich...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was in Sweden recently and a Swedish friend referred to his common-
law wife as "sambo." I asked him what the term meant and he said that
it refered to someone you live with to whom you are not officially
married. Does this term have a large currency?

Of course. It is a regular word. Sam- = co-, related to samman,
tillsammans "together". Bo = to live (in a place).
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