sönder och samman
Swedish
Etymology
sönder (“broken”) + och (“and”) + samman (“together (as in having collapsed in on itself)”)
Adverb
sönder och samman (not comparable)
- to an utterly destroyed state (sometimes hyperbolically)
- De slog honom sönder och samman
- They beat him to a pulp
References
- sönder in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- sönder in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)