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Swedish
Etymology
Calque of German des Pudels Kern (literally “the poodle's core”). The phrase is taken from a scene in Faust, Part One during which a black poodle follows Faust home and transforms into a wandering scholar, who is actually Mephistopheles in disguise. Faust exclaims: "Das war also des Pudels Kern!" (“So that was the poodle's core!”); that is, "So that's what was going on inside the poodle!".
Noun
pudelns kärna c
- the crux of the matter, the gist of the matter, the heart of the matter
Pudelns kärna är om behandlingen gör honom lyckligare- The heart of the matter is whether the treatment makes him happier