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 Translation for 'favourite book' from English to Danish
NOUN   a favourite book | favourite books
litt.
favourite book [Br.]
yndlings­bog {fk}
Partial Matches
favourite [Br.]favorit {fk}
favourite [Br.]yndling {fk}
favourite colour [Br.]yndlings­farve {fk}
bookbog {fk}
hist.typo
block book
blokbog {fk}
mus.
music book
nodebog {fk}
forlags.
(book) cover
bogbind {n}
phone booktelefonbog {fk}
book collectionbogsamling {fk}
litt.
fave book [coll.]
yndlings­bog {fk}
litt.
favorite book [Am.]
yndlings­bog {fk}
forlags.gastr.
cookery book [esp. Br.]
kogebog {fk}
filmlitt.F
The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
Junglebogen
by every trick in the book {adv} [idiom]efter alle kunstens regler [talemåde]
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Usage Examples English
  • It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it as his favourite book.
  • Corto's favourite book is "Utopia" by Thomas More, but he never finishes it. He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevenson, Melville and Conrad, and quotes Rimbaud.
  • "La joie de vivre" was reportedly the favourite book of 19th century painter Vincent van Gogh.
  • "The Trouble Makers" had originally been the Ford Lectures in 1955 and was his favourite book by far.
  • Lucas has a strange affliction in which he intermittently and uncontrollably spouts the poetry of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' (Lucas' favourite book).

  • Popular reading in schools, "Animal Farm" was ranked the UK's favourite book from school in a 2016 poll.
  • "Desert Island Discs" is a BBC Radio 4 interview show in which the subject is invited to consider themselves as a castaway on a desert island, and then select their eight favourite records, one favourite book (in addition to "The Bible" and the Complete Works of Shakespeare), and a luxury inanimate object to occupy their time.
  • Arther Gook was converted in a Bible class, and the Bible became his favourite book.
  • (coming second by three votes) and the 2011 Southampton's Favourite Book Award.
  • The first is widely regarded as an important classic (voted Scotland's favourite book in a 2005 poll supported by the Scottish Book Trust and other organisations) but opinions are more varied about the other two.

  • Iinuma and his son leave for Tokyo after the dinner. Just before they go, Isao lends Honda a copy of his favourite book, "The League of the Divine Wind" by Tsunanori Yamao, and urges him to read it.
  • In "The Simpsons" episode "Sweets and Sour Marge", it reveals that Moe Szyslak's favourite book is "Tom Clancy's Op-Center".
  • The closely researched story spans the decade from the Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Japanese War and went on to become the nation's favourite book.
  • "Birdsong" came 13th in a 2003 BBC survey called the Big Read, which aimed to find Britain's favourite book.
  • He had a particular regard for the Eastern Orthodox concept of "glory", and his favourite book he had written was his 1949 work "The Transfiguration".

  • In the words of biographer John Buchan, his favourite book was a "splendid folio of the first edition" of "History of the World" by Walter Raleigh.
  • Frank said his favourite book was "Back".
  • She said of herself "I am a real Bosnian, loving strong and high-calorie food" and that her vice is "cigarettes and a good book"; her favourite book being Meša Selimović's "Death and the Dervish".
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