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Sweden · English meaning
Lagom is about enough without excess
Swedish lagom expresses an amount that is neither too much nor too little, with a sense of appropriateness. A popular story traces it to Vikings passing a drinking horn around a group, but that is a false etymology. The appealing story is not the established derivation.
The amount can be just right while the origin story is wrong.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05