Mar 16, 2020 00:54
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English term

dejunk

GBK English to Croatian Art/Literary Slang
Definition from Oxford:
v. transitive. To remove junk from (a place); to clear (a room or other space) by disposing of clutter and unwanted possessions. Also in extended use.”
Example sentences:
Dejunk your life (The Guardian)
Clearing the clutter: how to dejunk your home (timeforyou.cleaning)
As I was looking in my kitchen cupboards with entertaining in mind, I realized there were so many serving pieces I just don’t use anymore and I promised myself that after the party, I was going to dejunk my kitchen of them. (cluborganized)
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Discussion

Andrej Furlan Mar 17, 2020:
"rasčistiti", which means literary "to clean up", or "riješiti se suvišnih stvari", "riješiti se nepotrebnih stvari" which translates literary to English as "to get rid of surplus things", "to get rid of unnecessary things", respectively.
If one is to stick strictly to a teenage slang, it would be possible to use just a croatified version of the English expression, thus "dedžankat". Please note though that such a word (dedžankat) is strictly a slang, and does not enter as a part of the official Croatian language. Moreover it will not be understandable to a large part of the Croatian speakers, so please put an explanation of the meaning in a footnote, if you would be about to use it in your translations.
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