Ställ dig i kön.

English Translation

Get in line.

No one dictionary gives translation of this word as “line”.

Swedish is borrowed from French queue. English line is another word for the same thing.

Some confusion may arise because kön (hard k: the queue) is a homograph of kön (soft k: sex, gender), but the context will make it clear. I cannot even think of a sentence which would be ambiguous.

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