DOOG-nahd[ˈdʉːɡnɑd]
the day the whole street turns out to work together, for nothing
Closest in English: volunteering, working-bee, barn-raising. None of them covers it.
Dugnad comes from Old Norse dugnaðr, help. Housing blocks and sports clubs call one every spring: you turn out with a rake, and there are waffles afterwards. In March 2020 the prime minister asked the country for a national dugnad, and nobody needed it explained.
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