The story
Dö is to die and städning is cleaning: you go through your belongings while you still can, so nobody else has to do it for you. Margareta Magnusson's 2017 book took the idea abroad. English readers know it as Swedish death cleaning.
döstädning
DUR-stehd-ning[ˈdøːˌstɛːdnɪŋ]
sorting out your belongings while you can, so nobody else has to
Closest in English: decluttering, declutter, death-cleaning. None of them covers it.
How it went in the game
Contains the answers. If you want to play the word yourself first, leave this closed.
- Which language is it from?Swedish
- Who does it?An older parent sparing the children
- Where would you hear it?An attic, a box marked 'keep' and a bin
- What does it mean?Sorting your things before you die
How it went
Harder than most words so far.
Round two, speaker, was where most points went.