Talk:Lagom

message: The translation "Enough is as good as a feast" is in my opinion wrong, because it conveys the feeling of not having more. The other translation, "There is virtue in moderation", is on the other hand right on target. Lagom is not by necessity, it is by choice!
I can't agree with either of these, my translation would be: just right is best.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.25.38.97 (talk) 00:37, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Translations comment 

message: It seems to me that 剛好 could be a Chinese equivalent, although it does carry with it a connotation of fortuitousness.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.225.159.39 (talk) 02:15, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese equivalent 

message: The word "lagom" exist in several dialects of Norwegian. It is also accepted in both written variations of Norwegian, Bokmål and Nynorsk. So it's inaccurate to claim that it's a purely Swedish word with no equivalents in other languages. It might very well be Swedish in origin, but since it's also intergrated into the Norwegian language, this should also be mentioned.
See here for proof; 
"http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/ordboksoek/ordbok.cgi?OPP=lagom&ordbok=bokmaal&s=n&alfabet=n&renset=j" and
"http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/ordboksoek/ordbok.cgi?OPP=lagom&ordbok=nynorsk&s=n&alfabet=n&renset=j"
or  http://www.ordnett.no/ordbok.html?search=lagom&publications=5&publications=2&publications=23&publications=1&publications=3&publications=20&publications=24&publications=25&publications=26&publications=28&publications=27" (might require registration) 
Thus I changed a paragraph dealing with the word's supposed untranslatability to include the Norwegian "lagom". I expect those inclined to remove this to discuss it here first.
Mogura 10:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Norwegian equivalent "passe" which is mentioned has slight negative connotations. "Passelig" is more positive and would thus be a better translation. I therefore shorten the sentence "A closer equivalent in terms of denotation/connotation is the Norwegian word "passe" ("passende, passelig", see Jante Law)". I also find this reference to the Jante Law misplaced, it should be moved. Narssarssuaq (talk) 13:20, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norwegian equivalent 

message: Would it be possible for a native speaker to post a soundclip of the word?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by L33th4x0rguy (talk • contribs) 23:28, 2 December 2006
::Two audio clips added. One I recorded and one found on Wikimedia. --LypsylateX  —Preceding undated comment added 18:09, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audio 

message: We must always attribute quotes in Wikipedia. We may not copy material from other sites or from print sources without attribution. We may quote from other sources, with proper cites. We should not include slightly paraphrased material from other sources, without cites. It is much better to include an exact quote with a proper cite. See Plagiarism, Wikipedia:Citing sources -- 201.19.93.178 16:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote and cite, don't plagiarize 

message: FWIW There is an Irish word which sounds like scowl more like skyowl meaning the right amount as in "Feed the calf a skcowl of milk" which would be the right amount not too much or too little.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.65.74 (talk) 06:48, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Irish 

message: Isn't this pretty much the same as 'cromulent' from the Simpsons?  I'm not saying that Sweden ripped off the show, but that David S. Cohen might have inadvertently filled the same semantic space that was missing in English.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast#Embiggen_and_cromulent  Namelessghoul (talk • contribs) 03:33, 25 May 2010
:As I recall it, the word 'cromulent' is used twice in the episode, once describing 'embiggen' as a "perfectly cromulent word", and once describing Homer Simpson's work as town crier as a "cromulent performance". In the first occasion, it clearly means something on the lines of 'normal', 'common', 'accepted', 'valid', which is pretty far from 'lagom'. In the second occasion, the performance could possibly be said to be lagom in the sense of neither being over-acted nor under-acted, but the usage of 'cromulent' here is so vague that it's really hard to tell more than that it's a positive word. 85.226.207.245 (talk) 09:49, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  The two are indeed different. The (non-)word 'cromulent' is closer to 'adequate' or 'sufficient' in that it seems to indicate that something meets expected minimum requirements. The thing about 'lagom' is that it indicates that there are both upper and lower limits. There's a significant difference between "hot enough" ("tillräckligt varm" in Swedish) and "lagom hot" ("lagom varm") in that the former could be too hot, while the latter must meet both the requirements of being "hot enough" and "not too hot". If that makes sense. - Alltat (talk) 09:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Simpsons did it" 

message: I guess I should mention this here and not just add it to the article right away, but I'm also guessing that this page may not be the most active one. Anyway, it doesn't seem unreasonable to mention the fact that 'í lagi' ('lagi' being the dative singular of the same stem that has given Swedish 'lagom'; cf. Icelandic dative plural 'lögum') means 'okay', 'all right' (as an adjective) in Icelandic and therefore has derived a similar connotation from the same root. Skomakar'n (talk) 21:43, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, in Norway there's some dialects that have the word "luggum" too, related to "lagom" and "lögum" I'm sure. =)  Luredreier (talk) 08:33, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icelandic 

message: The proper translation of "lagom" in these languages would be the Turkish loanword "taman", meaning "just right". The meaning is perfectly illustrated in this old joke:
- Are you drunk?
- No.
- Then are you sober?
- No.
- Then what are you?
- Taman.
Still, um(j)eren is in some contexts the appropriate translation of the cited Russian word, but that would be a translation of a translation, and is therefore wrong to include here.
141.136.242.48 (talk) 18:10, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian 

message: Is this book worth exploring to add content to the page?
https://books.google.co.th/books?id=OpZiDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lagom&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimjrCZh4vaAhWMFZQKHTc1DEcQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=lagom&f=false
Is it already referenced in the article? 
184.22.209.76 (talk) 22:40, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book Title - Lagom: The Swedish Secret of Living Well 

message: The usual translation into English is "not too much and not too little", which is a much better translation than "just the right amount", since "just the right amount"" confers a meaning of near perfect that lagom does definitely not do. Instead lagom means an amount of something, whether it's spices in food, room temperature or anything else, that most people would feel is agreeable, if not perfect. - Tom | Thomas.W  talk 16:17, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It kinda means "just the right amount" in an unserious way, as in "dont fuck up".--Blockhaj (talk) 16:35, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Tom completely. "Not too much, not too little" is correct, but "just right" is wrong since it means a to tight span. And lagom has a positive meaning, lagom is a good thing. --David Göthberg (talk) 00:04, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: No, lagom does '''not''' mean "just the right amount"...